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Byzantine garlic and Turkish delight

Dining habits and cultural change in central Greece from Byzantine to Ottoman times1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 January 2009

Joanita Vroom
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Abstract

On the basis of the Post-Roman surface finds from the Boeotia Survey in central Greece, the use and social meaning of glazed vessels as table utensils from Byzantine to Ottoman times (ca. 10th–19th centuries A.D.) will be discussed, as well as the cultural changes in dining manners in that period. It is the intention of this paper to approach this evolution of “wining and dining” habits in an interdisciplinary perspective, in which archaeological data, textual sources and iconographical information will be combined.

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GreeceByzantinemedieval and post-medieval periodspotterycuisinedining manners

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Archaeological Dialogues , Volume 7 , Issue 2 , December 2000 , pp. 199 - 216
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Copyright © The Author(s) 2000

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