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Provides detailed information regarding European civilization between the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries, including religion, fine arts, trade and science.

"More than a cookbook, The Medieval Kitchen vividly depicts the context and tradition of authentic medieval cookery. Culture and cuisine here become thoroughly entwined, informing and transforming one another. Etiquette at table and the aesthetics of the meal, the seasonal variations evidenced in feast days and fast days, the foods of the city and the country, the diets of the rich and the poor, and the ingenious methods and techniques employed in...

"This book provides the historical background for a central issue in the history of science: the influence of artisans, craftsmen, and other practitioners on the emergent empirical methodologies that characterized the "new sciences" of the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Long offers a coherent account and critical revision of the "Zilsel thesis," an influential etiological narrative which argues that such craftsmen were instrumental in bringing...

This book is a comprehensive account of the music produced in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. The music of the period covered in this volume exhibited a brilliance and richness fully equal to the parallel achievements of Renaissance literature and art. The author deals with the varied and complex strands of musical development through these years in a masterly way. He describes how a dominant new music style arose in northern France with Dufay,...