Autorentext

Lara Frentrop completed her PhD at The Courtauld Institute of Art, London, and has since held lecturing and research roles at The Courtauld Institute and Heidelberg University, Germany. Her research explores how the interactive experience - from physical to rhetorical - of the material culture and architecture of medieval Byzantium created meaning and identity. Her work focuses on themes including communication and relationships, both human and divine; rhetoric; performativity; sin and salvation; and body and space.

Klappentext

This book examines the ceramic and metal vessels in terms of the information offered on the foods eaten, the foods desired and their status; the spectacle of the banquet; the relationship between word and image in medieval Byzantium.

Inhalt

Introduction 1.A Taste for Novelty 2. The Theatre of Dining: Splendour and Performance 3. Word, Image and Intellect: Rhetoric and Display at Table 4. Bad Taste 5. Manly Men, Heroic Hunters 6. The Display of Triumph, or: How A Plate Can Make You Powerful. Conclusion.