The Great Elector's Table: The Politics of Food in Seventeenth-Century Brandenburg-Prussia

What food production, presentation, and consumption reveals about the exercise of power in early modern Germany In...
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Author: Molly Taylor-Poleskey
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The Great Elector's Table: The Politics of Food in Seventeenth-Century Brandenburg-Prussia by Taylor-Poleskey, Molly

The Great Elector's Table: The Politics of Food in Seventeenth-Century Brandenburg-Prussia

Dhs. 324.73

The Great Elector's Table: The Politics of Food in Seventeenth-Century Brandenburg-Prussia

Dhs. 324.73
Author: Molly Taylor-Poleskey
Format: Paperback
Language: English
What food production, presentation, and consumption reveals about the exercise of power in early modern Germany

In politics, as with food, presentation is everything. At the court of Elector Friedrich Wilhelm in Brandenburg-Prussia, the two combined in a way that illuminates the social and cultural dynamics of seventeenth-century German life. In this remarkable book, the first of its kind, Molly Taylor-Poleskey offers an innovative critical approach to understanding how a particular dynasty and an unexceptional German state rose to their eminent position on the Central European stage following the devastation of the Thirty Years' War. Food, she shows, functioned both as a tool of self-aggrandizement for rulers and as a means of coercion and leverage in power negotiations. From bakers to botanists, court servants up and down the social ladder each had a role to play in the political life of this court. Moving beyond dusty bureaucratic narratives, this colorful and inviting book offers readers a new way of appreciating how culture, politics, the natural environment, and science intertwined in early modern German statecraft.

Author: Molly Taylor-Poleskey
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: 10/17/2024
Pages: 258
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.84lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.58d
ISBN: 9780813951607

About the Author
Molly Taylor-Poleskey is the Harvard Map Collection librarian and was associate professor of digital history at Middle Tennessee State University.

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