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Inge Nielsen and Hanne Sigismund Nielsen, eds.
Meals in A Social Context: Aspects of the Communal Meal in the Hellenistic and Roman World.
Publisher: Aarhus U.P., 1998.
Series: Aarhus Studies in Mediterranean Antiquity (ASMA), vol. I.
ISBN 8772886978.
Binding: hardback, stitch bound; printed boards, published without a dustjacket.
Printer: Alden Press, Oxford.
Size: 173×247×16mm.
Page count: 245pp inc. several monochrome illustrations.
Main language: English.
Overall condition fair to good: the boards and spine on this copy are somewhat frayed and rubbed, especially at the edges and corners, a small split at the base of the spine; pages a bit yellowed with age; otherwise looks in good order internally, text appears to be free of marking.

This item £10.00
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[Publisher’s price for 2nd edn. paperback €26.95]
Weight without packaging: 634g.

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Emphasis pre-medieval.

Contents:
Ørsted, Salt, fish, & the sea in the Roman Empire;
Bradley, The Roman family at dinner;
Nielsen, Roman children at mealtimes;
Lindsay, The Roman funerary banquet;
Dunbabin, Greeks & Romans on the dining couch;
Nielsen, Development of royal banquets & banqueting halls from Alexander to the Tetrarchs;
Noy, Jewish meals in the Roman world;
Bilde, The common meal in the Qumran-Essene communities;
Hallbäck, Sacred meal & social meeting — Paul’s argument in 1 Cor. 11.17-34;
White, Regulating fellowship in the communal meal — early Jewish & Christian evidence.

Illustrations: 26
Maps & plans: 31

Notes: at end of each chapter
Tables: 2
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: 17pp
Indexes: Names; Index locorum.

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