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A Feast of Words: Banquets and Table Talk in the Renaissance

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I had plans of using this book for my master's thesis, but was unable to focus on the concept of feasting in the end (the thesis took on another direction). I wrote my master's a few years ago, and have never forgotten the excellent scholarship of Michel Jeanneret.

Jeanneret is able to pull from a number of disciplines and, as a result, this work demonstrates the complexity of the Renaissance. His sensitivity and acute understanding of this time period allows him to pursue interesting angles on the meaning of feasting. He also displays a self-reflexive attitude towards his own scholarship, thus adding yet another dimension to this work.
It is scholarship that reminds me of Huizinga, Burckhardt, Pleij, etc. Even if this isn't within your own field of research (if you happen to be a graduate student or professor), this book is well worth reading.