Feeding the merchants and artisans of Northwest Europe (seventh–tenth centuries) : Food practices and strategies in the emporia of the Nordic Seas
International audience Eating is a socially and culturally significant act that helps define identities. In the context of the economic development of the Nordic Seas from the seventh century onward, a new kind of port area emerged, known as wics or emporia. Using textual and archaeological...
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ftccsdartic:oai:HAL:halshs-02318454v1 2023-05-15T17:24:20+02:00 Feeding the merchants and artisans of Northwest Europe (seventh–tenth centuries) : Food practices and strategies in the emporia of the Nordic Seas Nourrir les marchands et artisans d’Europe du Nord-Ouest (VIIe-Xe siècle) : pratiques et stratégies alimentaires Malbos, Lucie Centre d'Etudes Supérieures de Civilisation médiévale (CESCM) Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Poitiers 2019 https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-02318454 https://doi.org/10.4000/medievales.10012 fr fre HAL CCSD Presses universitaires de Vincennes info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.4000/medievales.10012 halshs-02318454 https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-02318454 doi:10.4000/medievales.10012 ISSN: 0751-2708 EISSN: 1777-5892 Médiévales https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-02318454 Médiévales, Presses universitaires de Vincennes, 2019, Du nouveau en archives Pratiques documentaires et innovations administratives (XIIIe-XVe siècle), 76, pp.133-152. ⟨10.4000/medievales.10012⟩ https://www.cairn.info/revue-medievales-2019-1.htm exchange Middle Ages foof ports towns Northwest Europe échanges alimentation Moyen Âge Europe du Nors-Ouest villes [SHS.ECO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Economics and Finance [SHS.HIST]Humanities and Social Sciences/History info:eu-repo/semantics/article Journal articles 2019 ftccsdartic https://doi.org/10.4000/medievales.10012 2021-11-07T01:36:46Z International audience Eating is a socially and culturally significant act that helps define identities. In the context of the economic development of the Nordic Seas from the seventh century onward, a new kind of port area emerged, known as wics or emporia. Using textual and archaeological sources, this article studies what their inhabitants—who mostly engaged in non-agricultural activities (commercial and artisanal)—ate. Did the food practices in such places, widely open to the outside, have any specific features ? Can we call them “urban” ? Here we try to answer such questions, returning to look at the possible supply networks of these ports and the role food could have played in the construction of their identity. Manger est un acte socialement et culturellement signifiant, qui contribue à définir des identités. Dans le contexte de l’essor économique du bassin des mers nordiques à partir du VIIe siècle, des sites portuaires d’un genre nouveau font leur apparition, les wics ou emporia. Cet article s’intéresse, à partir des sources textuelles et archéologiques, à ce que mangeaient leurs habitants, largement engagés dans des activités non agricoles (commerciales et artisanales) : les pratiques alimentaires dans ces lieux largement ouverts sur l’extérieur présentaient-elles des spécificités ? Peut-on aller jusqu’à les qualifier d’« urbaines » ? Autant de questions auxquelles on tente ici de répondre, en revenant sur les possibles réseaux d’approvisionnement de ces ports et sur la place qu’a pu jouer l’alimentation dans la construction de leur identité. Article in Journal/Newspaper Nordic Seas Archive ouverte HAL (Hyper Article en Ligne, CCSD - Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe) Manger ENVELOPE(-153.250,-153.250,-77.483,-77.483) Médiévales 76 133 152 |
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International audience Eating is a socially and culturally significant act that helps define identities. In the context of the economic development of the Nordic Seas from the seventh century onward, a new kind of port area emerged, known as wics or emporia. Using textual and archaeological sources, this article studies what their inhabitants—who mostly engaged in non-agricultural activities (commercial and artisanal)—ate. Did the food practices in such places, widely open to the outside, have any specific features ? Can we call them “urban” ? Here we try to answer such questions, returning to look at the possible supply networks of these ports and the role food could have played in the construction of their identity. Manger est un acte socialement et culturellement signifiant, qui contribue à définir des identités. Dans le contexte de l’essor économique du bassin des mers nordiques à partir du VIIe siècle, des sites portuaires d’un genre nouveau font leur apparition, les wics ou emporia. Cet article s’intéresse, à partir des sources textuelles et archéologiques, à ce que mangeaient leurs habitants, largement engagés dans des activités non agricoles (commerciales et artisanales) : les pratiques alimentaires dans ces lieux largement ouverts sur l’extérieur présentaient-elles des spécificités ? Peut-on aller jusqu’à les qualifier d’« urbaines » ? Autant de questions auxquelles on tente ici de répondre, en revenant sur les possibles réseaux d’approvisionnement de ces ports et sur la place qu’a pu jouer l’alimentation dans la construction de leur identité. |
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Feeding the merchants and artisans of Northwest Europe (seventh–tenth centuries) : Food practices and strategies in the emporia of the Nordic Seas |
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