Published: 2021-12-24

Bishop’s pantry: Consumption at the manor of the bishop of Wrocław in light of accounts from 1449–1450

Ewa Wółkiewicz
Kwartalnik Historii Kultury Materialnej
Section: Studies and Materials
DOI https://doi.org/10.23858/KHKM69.2021.4.002

Abstract

This article analyses the accounts of the court of Legnica, the centre of one of the estates that belonged to the bishopric of Wrocław. The surviving records contain extensive lists of products supplied for Bishop Piotr Nowak during his five visits to Legnica, between June 1449 and the end of April 1450. The accounts reflect the clear difference between the ordinary functioning of the manor and the extraordinary period when the owner visited it. Attention is primarily drawn to the variety of products and the care taken to serve during each visit different delicacies, which had not been served to the Bishop during his previous stays. Most of these delicacies were bought in small quantities for a small group of people, perhaps only for the Bishop Nowak himself.

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Silesia, Legnica, food history, church history, late Middle Ages

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Wółkiewicz, E. (2021). Bishop’s pantry: Consumption at the manor of the bishop of Wrocław in light of accounts from 1449–1450. Kwartalnik Historii Kultury Materialnej, 69(4), 449–462. https://doi.org/10.23858/KHKM69.2021.4.002

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