Comida, ética y estructura social entre Romanos y Germanos: de la Germania de Tácito a la Antigüedad tardía: Food, Ethics and Social Structure between Romans and Germans: from Tacitus's Germania to Late Antiquity

Guillermo Alvar Nuño

doi:10.12795/i54.10

Authors

Guillermo Alvar Nuño Universidad de Alcalá / IEMSO

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.12795/i54.10

Keywords:

Jack Goody, Tacitus, Germanic Peoples, Romans, Food Culture, Food and Morals

Abstract

In 1982 Jack Goody published Cooking, Cuisine and Class. A Study in Comparative Sociology. In this work, he focused on different culinary cultures of several areas of the world, as well as the relationship between the development of refined cuisine and the emergence of a complex society. Among his conclusions, he demonstrated that the way of eating constitutes an essential aspect in any society. More specifically, he pointed out that in different European and Asian cultures the emergence of a cuisine should be associated with the development of a “hierarchical man”. Under this premise, this article intends to analyze how the dietary systems of the Germanic and Roman peoples changed since they came into contact with each other, taking Tacitus’s Germania, the first articulated story about the Germanic tribs, as a starting and reference point, and the end of Antiquity as the point of arrival.

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