Similarly, you might want to ask... did they gain essence when they are used for worship and services, as dining tables were used as the center of anglican mass for many years, similarly they have held other meanings for households. Note also that dining tables were not actually used that much as dining tables, for the most part they were just for serving food, people would go to the table, get their food, then go to where-ever they wanted to eat. That I read recently in Bill Bryson's new book At Home. The use of the table as a place for dining seems to have arisen with the increase in wealth in pre-elizabethan England, as with the rise of wealth people were getting fancier furniture and so as not to hurt the fancy furniture, they began to reserve a room in which to eat that had service-able furniture.
On Nov 8, 2010, at 7:49 AM, esra bici wrote:
> Hi all,
> I am conducting a research about the dining tables. I am searching out if
> they lose their essence by the contemporary life styles in which people
> don't have so much time for cooking meals, work for long periods, eat out
> often. I also will conduct a survey about the situation of the frequency
> this dining ritual in people's lives. I have been searching for two weeks. I
> would like to learn if you also know any references for this subject.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Esra.
Jeremy Hunsinger
Center for Digital Discourse and Culture
Virginia Tech
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