The Great Elector's Table: The Politics of Food in Seventeenth-Century Brandenburg-Prussia

What food production, presentation, and consumption reveals about the exercise of power in early modern Germany

In politics, as with food, presentation is everything. At the court of Elector Friedrich Wilhelm in Brandenburg-Prussia, the two combined in a way that illuminates the social and cultural dynamics of seventeenth-century German life. In this remarkable book, the first of its kind, Molly Taylor-Poleskey offers an innovative critical approach to understanding how a particular dynasty...