Food Gifts, the Household and the Politics of Exchange in Early Modern England

Heal, Felicity

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“…The first section is addressed to princesses, which may have been a polite protocol since the original manuscript of The Treasure is dedicated to a princess. There is evidence of princesses taking an active role in household management and the keeping of financial accounts [Brown, 1905, Heal, 2008 but Christine de Pizan may have had another motivation for offering financial advice to princesses. King Charles VI had periods of insanity which made him incapable of managing royal finances.…”

Section: Inside the Treasurementioning

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Choreography of the Past: Accounting and the Writing of Christine de Pizan

Miley

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2017

Accounting Historians Journal

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This research discusses The Treasure of the City of Ladies, a manuscript written by Christine de Pizan in France during the early 15th century to give guidance on account keeping and budgeting. Christine de Pizan was born in Italy but raised in the French royal court. Her manuscript gives the keeping of accounts and budget management a religious imperative. She describes them as functions where the three divine virtues of reason, rectitude, and justice are applied. Christine de Pizan describes how demonstrating these virtues through the proper keeping of accounts and budgets is a way to demonstrate love of God. Although historical accounting records show how accounting was done, this manuscript explains why it was done. In giving a rationale for single-entry bookkeeping and budgeting, the manuscript provides a source that prevents present-mindedness when attempting to undertake contemporary analyses of accounting records from this historical period.

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Section: Inside the Treasurementioning

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Choreography of the Past: Accounting and the Writing of Christine de Pizan

Miley

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2017

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“…Sem dúvida a corte pontifícia e as cortes cardinalícias desempenharam um papel importante enquanto modelos de organização, e eram formadas por pessoas de sexo masculino, tendo no ápice homens solteiros. 47 Além disso, na Itália e na França, a cozinha desempenhava um papel "público" em maior medida do que na Inglaterra, embora no contexto inglês a hospitalidade e as oferendas de alimentos fossem elementos importantes na construção de relações sociais e de patronage com valores também políticos (Heal, 2008). Na Grã-Bretanha, de fato, principalmente depois das revoluções seiscentistas, a corte não tinha nenhum poder e nenhum papel de arbiter elegantiarum comparáveis aos das cortes refinadas italianas do Renascimento, ou que a luxuosa corte francesa possuía nos séculos XVII e XVIII.…”

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Melhor o cozinheiro? Um percurso sobre a dimensão de gênero da preparação da comida (Europa ocidental, séculos XVI-XIX)

Sarti

2012

Cad. Pagu

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This paper analyses the preparation of food in Western Europe (16th-19th centuries), focusing on its gendered dimension. Three main variables are considered: social stratification, geography and time. It suggests that in Italy, Spain and France in early modern times the cooks employed at the courts and by the aristocracy were generally men; a feminization of the preparation of food started in France from the 18th century onwards. In Central and Northern Europe women were much more involved in the preparation of food in the upper classes, too, even though the fashion for French cuisine in the 17th and 18th centuries implied a growing recourse to male cooks. The paper suggests explanations of these differences and trends over time and discusses the role of nurturing and cooking for the definition of the female identity in different contexts

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“…67 In nine months in 1331, Queen Philippa received 2775 loaves, 108 doles of wine, and 1833 gallons of ale. 68 Gifts of corn, as opposed to bread d and here what has been given looks like about 10 days' rations of bread and ale d do not feature.…”

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Gifts of food in late medieval England

Woolgar

2011

Journal of Medieval History

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a b s t r a c tGifts of food were an integral part of late medieval culture. Small items, such as fruit, might be given by anyone. As part of commensality, sociability, hospitality and charity, food gifts underpinned customary patterns of life; they developed networks of relationships, establishing good lordship, and played an important role in negotiations. Patterns of giving demonstrate the distinctiveness and appropriateness of some categories of foodstuff, and illuminate the purposes of donors. Changes over time can be identified: indiscriminate hospitality or large-scale food alms fell out of common practice after the Black Death and gifts of money were preferred in some circumstances. Giving choice foodstuffs, however, remained a constant.

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Food Gifts, the Household and the Politics of Exchange in Early Modern England

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Choreography of the Past: Accounting and the Writing of Christine de Pizan

Choreography of the Past: Accounting and the Writing of Christine de Pizan

Melhor o cozinheiro? Um percurso sobre a dimensão de gênero da preparação da comida (Europa ocidental, séculos XVI-XIX)

Gifts of food in late medieval England

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