Culinary Historians | Cooking in London after the Black Death

When

Sunday October 20, 2024: 4:00pm to 5:30pm  Add to Calendar /   Add to Google Calendar

Where

Downtown Library: Multi-Purpose Room

Description

The Black Death, a bubonic plague pandemic, first swept through England in 1348-49. In the ensuing period, the survivors enjoyed increased wages, which they spent on an expanding array of food, cooking equipment, and tableware. In this talk, Prof. Katherine French will describe how cooking and eating habits changed in London in the late fourteenth and early fifteenth century.

Katherine French is the J. Frederick Hoffman Professor of History at the University of Michigan. Her work focuses on women, popular religion and material culture after the plague. Most recently she published Household Goods and Good Households: Consumption and Domesticity after the Plague in London (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021).

The Library will be providing a live stream of this event and we intend to make it available for future viewing. A video player will appear on this page 1 hour before the start of the event.