Author: Alexander Devine

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts

Food for Thought

Alexander Devine

Apr 8, 2013

[Ed. Note: Today’s post comes from Alex Devine, a Ph.D. Candidate in Penn’s English Department] This is a story about merchants and menus in medieval England. Two manuscripts in the Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection at Penn, LJS 238, The Statute of Wynchestre, a record of the regulations for breadmaking in 16th-century England and LJS 61,…
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Author: Alexander Devine

Food for Thought