Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching (SMART)
Spring 2020 (Volume 27, Issue 1)
The first issue of 2020 features a collection that has been in the works for quite some time: “Using Food and Foodways to Teach the Middle Ages across Disciplines.” Guest edited by Lisa Shugert Bevevino, these papers originated from a 2015 session sponsored by Mens et Mensa: Society for the Study of Food in the Middle Ages and TEAMS (The Consortium for the Teaching of the Middle Ages) at the 50th International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Here, the presenters share their experiences teaching food in the university classroom, having learned firsthand that the Middle Ages can very effectively come to life for students once the subject matter is experienced directly.
Also included in this issue are many, many book reviews, which lately seem to be the norm for SMART because of the accumulated backlog. Hopefully, many of the books reviewed here will appeal to teachers and students of medieval and Renaissance Studies.
LISA SHUGERT BEVEVINO Using Food and Foodways to Teach the Middle Ages across Disciplines: Introduction
DIANE BURKE MONEYPENNY Teaching Food in the Middle Ages: Approaches to Teaching Medieval Iberian Literature
ANDREA SCHUTZ Unhasty Cooks: Feasting and Companionship in Medieval Literature and Language Courses
SAMANTHA MEIGS Traveling Food: Using Peripatetic Food to Understand the Medieval Past
SCOTT D. STULL An Anthropological Archaeological Perspective on Medieval Food
LISA SHUGERT BEVEVINO Quests, Quails, and Custards: Food in Life and Literature
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THOMAS H. BLAKE Book Review: Teaching Medieval and Early Modern Cross-Cultural Encounters, edited by Karina F. Attar and Lynn Shutters
TOM CONNER Book Review: Seven Myths of the Crusades, edited with an Introduction and epilogue by Alfred J. Andrea and Andrew Holt
ROBERT GRAYBILL Book Review: The Cambridge Old English Reader, second edition, edited by Richard Marsden
BEVERLY BOYD Book Review: Beowulf and the Grendel-kin: Politics & Poetry in Eleventh-Century England, by Helen Damico
LESLEY A. COOTE Book Review: Medieval Literature: Criticism and Debates, edited by Holly A. Crocker and D. Vance Smith
MEL STORM Book Review: Chaucer and the Taverners of Ipswich: The Influence of His Paternal Ancestors Upon Some Portraits in the General Prologue and Upon His Descendants, by Beverly Boyd
WILLIAM F. HODAPP Book Review: Approaches to Teaching Petrarch’s Canzoniere and the Petrarchan Tradition, edited by Christopher Kleinhenz and Andrea Dini
ROY HAMMERLING Book Review: Caravaggio: Signed in Blood, by Mark David Smith
CHRISTINA FRANCIS Book Review: Vikings and Goths: A History of Ancient and Medieval Sweden, by Gary Dean Peterson
CARY J. NEDERMAN and KAREN BOLLERMANN Book Review: Nothing Natural is Shameful: Sodomy and Science in Late Medieval Europe, by Joan Cadden
MICHAEL SARABIA Book Review: John Gower and the Limits of the Law, by Conrad Van Dijk
MEL STORM Book Review: Elf Queens and Holy Friars: Fairy Beliefs and the Medieval Church, by Richard Firth Green
SUSAN KENDRICK Book Review: Richard III and the Princes in the Tower: The Possible Fates of Edward V and Richard of York, by Gerald Prenderghast
JENNY RYTTING Book Review: The Faerie Queene as Children’s Literature: Victorian and Edwardian Retellings in Words and Pictures, by Velma Bourgeois Richmond
COREY J. ZWIKSTRA Book Review: Narrative Subversion in Medieval Literature, by E. L. Risden
AMY MORRIS Book Review: How to Read Medieval Art, by Wendy A. Stein
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