The arts of the table in the Middle Ages

Name: Las artes de la mesa en la Edad Media
Start: 2025-06-07T14:00:00+02:00
End: 2025-06-08T17:00:00+02:00
Location: Jardin médiéval du musée de Saint-Antoine-l’Abbaye,

7 i 8 junio

This event includes accessibility accommodations

Motor impairment

The arts of the table in the Middle Ages

With ILC La Cité - Centre for Living History of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
From identical reconstructed objects of excavations, including plant decorations as they were found on tables in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance and French expressions, Jean-François Vassal and Valérie Michel will show how our tableware was born in medieval times. They will also discuss the organization of gardens and the place of spices in the kitchen as well as in commercial relations.

About the location

Jardin médiéval du musée de Saint-Antoine-l’Abbaye,

Le Noviciat 38160 Saint-Antoine-l'Abbaye

Isère
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes

Four gardens, four stories, four stops punctuated by exuberant plants, aromatic herbs, flowers and fruit trees joined by the water of a fountain and ponds, an inherent element and founder of the very essence of the garden. A garden of Mediterranean plants, a link between East and West, welcomes the visitor in its rediscovery of medieval gardens: the Garden of Paradise, a place of delight and contemplation with its flowers and birds; the Garden of the perfumer, quintessence of the enclosed garden where the rose smells; the Garden of the Simple and its medicinal plants; the Arabo-Andalusian Celestial Garden, where the mineral symphony meets the profusion of plants. If these gardens have been reinterpreted from emblematic works, they also allow us to recall that the Abbey of Saint-Antoine was from the Middle Ages a vast garden, this cloister symbolizing the heavenly paradise according to the evocation of Sicard, Bishop of Cremona, who recommended that the garden be “planted with trees and