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Medieval Food Culture

Code: LH41506

Dates: October 17 - November 14, 2024

Meets: 10:00 AM to 11:15 AM

Sessions: 5

Location: ONLINE

Course Fee: $89.00

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Explore the food culture during the Medieval period, focusing on the culinary traditions, dietary habits and socio-economic factors that influenced food consumption in Europe. Examine agricultural practices, trade routes and religious beliefs that shaped the Medieval diet, and the role of food in social rituals and class distinctions. Via historical texts, recipes and culinary techniques, understand how food functioned as both sustenance and symbol. Address the impact on contemporary culinary practices, gaining insights into the origins of modern gastronomy.
Fee: $89.00
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Asil Yaman

Dr. Asil Yaman is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Villanova University, College of Sciences and Arts since 2022. He is also working as consulting professor at the Mediterranean section of the University of Pennsylvania Museum since 2016. Previously he was a research assistant at the Mugla Sitki Koçman University (Turkey), where he worked for seven years. He has been excavating in the eastern Mediterranean since 2003, working on projects from Aegae (Aeolis), Pedasa (Caria), Amos (Caria), Xanthus (Lycia), Arycanda (Lycia), Patara (Lycia), and Gordion (Phrygia) in Turkey. He focuses on the material culture such as late roman pottery, food culture, and trade relations between the Levant and Anatolia in late antiquity. Currently, he is investigating the archaeology of Carian Chersonese, which is part of his post-doc project and directing the Phoenix Archaeological Project (PAP). He has also been serving as co-editor of the Levantine Ceramics Project (LCP) since 2018. Asil received the research grant of the American Research Institute in Turkey (ARIT) and Koç University Gabam Grant in 2018. His teaching repertory includes courses such as; ‘Anatolian Archaeology’, ‘The war between the East and West in Archaeological and Historical perspectives’, ‘Asia Minor in Late Antiquity’, ‘ Archaeology of Religion and Rituals’ and the Medieval Mediterranean Food Culture’ at both undergraduate and graduate level. Archaeologist, Director at Phoenix Archaeological Project, Turkey. Professor, Villanova University and Penn Museum

ayaman@upenn.edu

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