Culinary Shakespeare: Staging Food and Drink in Early Modern England. David B. Goldstein and Amy L. Tigner, eds. Medieval and Renaissance Literary Studies. Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 2016. 288 pp. $70.

2017 ◽  
Vol 70 (4) ◽  
pp. 1664-1665
Author(s):  
Joan Fitzpatrick
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Early Modern England ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
Duquesne University ◽  
Food And Drink

Food Expenditures and Economic Well-Being in Early Modern England

1983 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 89-100 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carole Shammas
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Early Modern England ◽  
Total Expenditure ◽  
Important Measure ◽  
Food Expenditures ◽  
Dietary Shifts ◽  
Food And Drink ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Economic Well Being

The proportion of a household's budget spent on diet has commonly served as an important measure of material welfare. This paper pulls together data concerning trends in food expenditures for early modern England and draws comparisons with figures for later periods. The usefulness of wage assessments, a new source for estimating the proportion of outlays devoted to diet, is examined. The impact on food expenditures of new commodities and other dietary shifts is also explored. The findings call into question earlier estimates of the proportion of total expenditure devoted to food and drink in the pre-industrial period and the assumption that food expenditures are always inelastic.

Epilogue

2019 ◽  
pp. 203-208
Author(s):  
Katherine R. Larson
Keyword(s):  
Women Writers ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Women's Writing ◽  
Early Modern England ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
Critical Inquiry ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Digital Initiative ◽  
Women’S Writing

The Epilogue presents two central conclusions: (1) that song is a slippery and multidimensional form that demands to be considered in embodied, gendered, and performance-based terms, and (2) that song constituted a vital, and vitally charged, rhetorical medium for women writers, performers, and patrons in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The Epilogue also open up future areas of critical inquiry, both in relation to early modern women’s writing and literary studies more broadly. In particular, it introduces Early Modern Songscapes, an emergent collaborative and interdisciplinary digital initiative that is responding directly to the methodological questions raised by The Matter of Song in Early Modern England.

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