Seven Deadly Sins and One Very Naughty Fruit by Mikey Robins
Author:Mikey Robins
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Australia
BYO Knife
Before we get into the curious and convoluted story of the fork, let’s have a brief look at the role that the medieval knife played in dining. For centuries, the knife was the sole implement of cutlery in Western society. If you were rich, it would mean that you were able to afford more than one knife. If you were poor, it sadly meant that your ‘stabby’ knife was also your ‘eating’ knife.
Both men and women would need knives, and as such both sexes would own knives. However, in polite society it was not deemed ‘correct’ to see a woman brandishing a blade, so it was custom for her male partner to slice off any meat she might want and pass it to her. For this he would use, if he were of the suitable social station, his eating knife, which he would have brought to dinner with him. For as generous as you might imagine the medieval banquet table to be, it was not usually considered to be the host’s duty to provide cutlery.
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