Dinesh's photos with the keyword: A HISTORY OF WESTERN SOCEITY

The Fight Between Carnival and Lent

13 Oct 2023 55
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fight_Between_Carnival_and_Lent The literary theme of the struggle between personifications of Shrove Tuesday and Lent dates as far back as the year 400 with the Psychomachia. The 13th Century French poem La Bataille de Caresme et de Charnage describes a symbolic battle between different foods, meat against fish.[2] A likely graphic precursor of the painting is a 1558 Frans Hogenberg print in which the personifications of lean and fat are driven together on carts by their supporters. The supporters attack each other with fish, waffles, cookies and eggs.

Petrarch

04 Sep 2019 2 55
Figure 1 Boccaccio's vision of Petrarch. Petrarch was the hero and inspiration of generations of humanists: writers, scholars and book collectors

Fork & knife

04 Aug 2023 8 6 73
{Fingers, spoons and knives were still the most popular choices when it came to actual eating. Some of the earliest known table forks made their debut in Ancient Egypt. The Qijia culture (2400-1900 BC) that resided in part of present day China also are known to have used forks.} Source: WWW