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Language
English
Description
Cabbages and Kings is a rather whimsical title (borrowed from Lewis Carroll) for a collection of what are, for the most part, learned essays on serious subjects. But the collection has a somewhat whimsical spirit as it brings together writings on many things, such as style in life and art, in restaurant design, and in the philosophies of Friedrich Nietzsche and Oscar Wilde, relations between liberalism and conservatism, Islam and the West, church...
Author
Publisher
Overlook Press
Pub. Date
2000
Physical Desc
ix, 770 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Every aspect of "courtly culture" comes to life in Joachim Bumke's extraordinarily rich and well documented presentation. A renowned medievalist with an encyclopedic knowledge of original sources and a passion for history, Bumke overlooks no detail, from the material realities of aristocratic society -- the castles and clothing, weapons and transportation, food, drink, and table etiquette -- to the behavior prescribed and practiced at tournaments,...
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