Anglo-Saxon Appetites: Food and Drink and their Consumption in Old English and Related Literature.

Yearbook of English Studies | January 1, 2002| | Copyright

Anglo-Saxon Appetites: Food and Drink and their Consumption in Old English and Related Literature. By Hugh Magennis. Dublin: Four Courts Press. 1999. 195 pp. 40 [pounds sterling]; $55.

It is often more difficult, as well as more provocative, to notice what is absent from a text or corpus of texts than to describe what is in it. Magennis's initial observation that `food is not mentioned with reference to feasting in Old English poetry' (p. 11) launches him into an insightful study of the vernacular corpus of Old English literature, in which he evaluates the social and ...


        
    


                
                

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