{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/5e0dcf0c36fdf5a65ebe67ad/6665cb40b6f3d90012382c19?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Medieval Table Manners and Food Hygiene","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/5e0dcf0c36fdf5a65ebe67ad/1717948342869-034aa05714da2a69e7c3dc0adf5ac9a0.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>'<em>Many other improprieties a good servant will avoid.</em>’ ...</p><p><br></p><p>Rules for health, hygiene and manners in Middle Ages...</p><p><br></p><p>Yes! They&nbsp;existed. People were worried about manners, and food poisoning and etiquette.</p><p>Yes people washed their hands before they sat on the table.</p><p>And much, much more! Listen to todays fascinating episode!</p><p><br></p><p>Voiceover on \"The babees book\" by Lucy Davidson.</p><p><a href=\"https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucy-davidson-a31682136/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucy-davidson-a31682136/</a></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p>Enjoy!</p><p>x</p><p>The Delicious Legacy</p><p><br></p><p>Books on medieval manners:</p><p>Frederick James Furnivall, ed., Early English meals and manners: John Russell’s Boke of nurture, Wynkyn de Worde’s Boke of keruynge, The boke of curtasye, R. Weste’s Booke of demeanor, Seager’s Schoole of vertue, The babees book, Aristotle’s A B C, Urbanitatis, Stans puer ad mensam.&nbsp;For the overview of medieval table manners see Hammond, Food and Feast, 116–19; Henisch, Fast and Feast, 159–203; Gies, Life in a Medieval Castle, 116; and Hans Sachs, “Ein Tischzucht,” in Astrid Stedje, Deutsch gestern und heute: Einführung in Sprachgeschichte und Sprachkunde (Lund: Liber Läromedel, 1979), 130.</p>","author_name":"The Delicious Legacy"}