In the 12th century, Hildegard von Bingen founded monasteries, criticized emperors, and was endorsed by the Pope. She also wrote recipes that were not meant for tasting good, but for doing good, as ...

Little by little, the old medieval communitarianism ... Jean-Louis Flandrin, a 20th-century culinary historian, has observed that eating customs offer important clues as to how to understand ...

These reflected early medieval ecclesiastical concerns in regulating ... animals that had fed on human flesh or blood, and forbade eating them. The most famous penitential of its time, that ...