Meules et moulins en Islande, du XVe au XIXe siècle : histoire d'une amnésie

• Main Author: Hrdy, Anouchka
• Other Authors: Université Grenoble Alpes - UFR Arts & Sciences Humaines (UGA UFR ARSH), Université Grenoble Alpes 2016-2019 (UGA 2016-2019 ), LAboratoire de Recherche Historique Rhône-Alpes - UMR5190 (LARHRA), Université Pierre Mendès France - Grenoble 2 (UPMF)-École normale supérieure de Lyon (ENS de Lyon)-Université Lumière - Lyon 2 (UL2)-Université Jean Moulin - Lyon 3 (UJML), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Alain Belmont
• Format: Master Thesis
• Language: French
• Published: HAL CCSD 2009
• Subjects: Handmills; Millstones; Quarries; Quarry-worker; Millers; Watermills; Windmills; Tidalmills; Commercial exchanges; Diet; Spatial organisation of the farm; Social organisation of the farm; Meules rotatives manuelles; Meules mécaniques; Moulins à eau; Moulins à vent; Moulins à marée motrice; Carriers; Meuniers; Agriculture; Organisation spatiale de la ferme; Organisation sociale de la ferme; Alimentation; Échanges commerciaux; Islande; Moyen âge; Époque moderne; [SHS.HIST]Humanities and Social Sciences/History; Iceland
• Online Access: https://dumas.ccsd.cnrs.fr/dumas-00432686; https://dumas.ccsd.cnrs.fr/dumas-00432686/document; https://dumas.ccsd.cnrs.fr/dumas-00432686/file/Meules_et_moulins_en_Islande.pdf

The aim of this master thesis is to investigate on an almost untouched part of Iceland the place of cereals in the organisation of Icelandic society. This approach has proved its pertinence in many European countries and is seducing more and more scholars, as it appears to potentially open a very large field of investigation, not only for rural society but also for the overall structure of society itself. Initially, this work focused on Icelandic archaeological material and in particular grindstones, in the aim to learn about Icelandic use of cereals. This large research project thus covered not only the fields of agriculture and food, but also the circulation of goods throughout the country and within the regions. Thus, grindstones are testimonies of everyday life, then quarries teach us about production and commercialisation of the grindstones. Over represented in the folklore of Norway and Sweden, grindstones seem to have disappeared from the memory of Iceland, as well as the cereals themselves. Our work will then be to over look this amnesia in the wish to encourage research in a field which seems to have been put aside without reason. The following study is divided into three chapters. These chapters aim to reflect the cosmological construction of Icelandic society. The first part will be dedicated to the Icelandic world itself from an anthropological perspective. The second part will reflect the inner part of this world as embodied in the material artefacts we had the possibility to analyse. Finally, the last chapter will look over this material and, representing the outer part of the same perception of the world, will be focused on the study of millhouses all over the country. This paper is almost the first one focusing on this topic. Therefore, it might sometimes be imprecise and many aspects might be forgotten, however the aim has been to serve as a starting block for further studies. The theoretical background of research into this subject is based on former historiography concerning rural icelandic ...