Our Daily Bread (Paperback)

Predrag Matvejevic

ISBN 10: 1912545098 / ISBN 13: 9781912545094

Published by Istros Books, Bristol, 2020

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Paperback. Our Daily Bread charmingly weaves together the customs, rituals, anecdotes, legends and sayings that tell the story of bread, from Mesopotamia, through Egypt, to the Far East, ancient Greece, ancient Rome, and the New World. Matvejevic shows how bread is depicted in literature and art (with beautiful illustrations) and examines especially closely the role of bread in the major world religions, drawing from the Bible, Talmud and Quran, but also at various apocryphal texts.In his seventh and last chapter, his narrative moves to the personal, explaining what motivated him to write this book; the lean years of his childhood during World War II and his fathers detention in a German concentration camp. Warning about the pending threat of hunger in the developed world, the book fittingly ends with a quote from the Russian anarchist Pyotr Kropotkin: The question of bread must take precedence over all other questions. A meditation of the cultural and religious significance of bread throughout history Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Our Daily Bread (Paperback)
• Publisher: Istros Books, Bristol
• Publication Date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1912545098
• ISBN 13: 9781912545094
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

Our Daily Bread charmingly weaves together the customs, rituals, anecdotes, legends and sayings that tell the story of bread, from Mesopotamia, through Egypt, to the Far East, ancient Greece, ancient Rome, and the New World.

Matvejevic shows how bread is depicted in literature and art (with beautiful illustrations) and examines especially closely the role of bread in the major world religions, drawing from the Bible, Talmud and Quran, but also at various apocryphal texts.

In his seventh and last chapter, his narrative moves to the personal, explaining what motivated him to write this book; the lean years of his childhood during World War II and his father's detention in a German concentration camp. Warning about the pending threat of hunger in the "developed world," the book fittingly ends with a quote from the Russian anarchist Pyotr Kropotkin: "The question of bread must take precedence over all other questions."