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Stuff your face like a pre-Reformation Christian

Tue, 2009-12-22 04:23 — Robyn

We've inherited an unhealthy, puritan attitude to food and sensory pleasure, says Tom Hodgkinson. Taking a leaf out of the books of our medieval ancestors would do us all good...

I am often accused by people who know nothing whatsoever of the subject of romanticising the Middle Ages.

When I point to a simple fact about the era, such as that usury was considered sinful, or that neighbourliness was considered of paramount importance, or that there really were knights, ladies and shining armour, I am told that I am wearing rose-tinted glasses.

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