Too many and overly plentiful meals create physical suffering. That is the message of an unusual allegorical tale of the 15th and 16th centuries about the scheming of a personified banquet for the life and limb of his guests, for which he pays with his life in the end. The material comes across as an imaginary description of a tapestry, as moral theatre and, after 1500, also as a series of rich tapestries. The tale questions and discusses the cultural idea of banquets according to the

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... dietary guidelines of Ms Experience. Such issues about nutrition and the bad habits it can engender have not lost their relevance even today.