A Feast of Words: Banquets and Table Talk in the Renaissance

Jeanneret, Michel

ISBN 10: 0226395766 / ISBN 13: 9780226395760

Published by University of Chicago Press, 1991

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Feast of Words: Banquets and Table Talk in the Renaissance
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Publication Date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0226395766
• ISBN 13: 9780226395760
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dimensions: 15.24W x 22.86H x 2.29D centimeters 15.24 centimeters width by 22.86 centimeters height by 2.29 centimeters depth
• Weight: 454 grams

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Synopsis

The banquet gives rise to a special moment when thought and the senses—words and food—enhance each other. Throughout history, the ideal of the symposium has reconciled the angel and the beast in the human, renewing the interdependence between the mouth that speaks and the mouth that eats. Michel Jeanneret's lively book explores the paradigm of the banquet as a guide to significant tendencies in Renaissance Humanist culture and shows how this culture in turn illuminates the tensions between physical and mental pleasures. Ranging widely over French, Italian, German, and Latin texts, Jeanneret not only investigates the meal as a narrative artefact but enquires as well into aspects of sixteenth-century anthropology and aesthetics. 

About the Author

Michael Jeanneret is professor of French literature at the University of Geneva.