CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2020
| Author | Kovács, Erzsébet |
|---|---|
| Title | The Enjoyment of the Foreign: "Muslim" and "Italian" Recipes of Medieval and Early Modern Europe |
| Summary | Medieval and Early Modern European cookbooks record a considerable number of recipes, which could be termed ethnonymic, because the dishes’ names refer to ethnic and national groups. Out of these texts, the functional and contextual analysis of the “Muslim” and “Italian” recipes reveals a different relationship to ethnic and national identities. The use of modern national dishes tends to be exclusive and conservative (evidenced by, for example, the use of “Croatian,” Serbian,” and “Bosnian” dishes at peace talks before the start of Yugoslav Wars). As opposed to these modern attitudes, medieval and Early Modern ethnonymic dishes appear to have been transcending boundaries. Their enjoyment does not seem to have threatened the identities of their noble and royal consumers. While they appear to have belonged to the international high fashion of medieval and Early Modern cuisines, the locally and temporally different varieties of “Muslim” and “Italian” dishes show how concepts of the Other changed both in space and time. |
| Supervisor | Gerhard Jaritz |
| Department | Medieval Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2020/kovacs_erzsebet.pdf |
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