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Subtleties, Power and Consumption: A Study of French and English Cuisine
from 1300 to 1500

While it is difficult to fix precise dates to the Fall of Rome on one hand
and the beginning of the Renaissance on the other, one thing is sure:
referring to the time period as the Dark Ages ignores a rich history that
includes innovations in art, architecture, fashion, the production of
illuminated manuscripts, public spectacle, and cookery. However, some
academics still make dark connotations when writing about medieval Europe.
Historian Johan Huizingas influential book, Autumn of the Middle Ages, for
instance, persistently employs the image of decay and decrepitude when he
refers to life in fourteenth and fifteenth century France and the
Netherlands. Even England, he claims, continued to hold onto
disintegrating traditions well into the Renaissance. Many medievalists
have contested this perspective in their works, as I will attempt to do
through the examination of an often......

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