Nourrir les marchands et artisans d’Europe du Nord-Ouest (viie-xe siècle) : pratiques et stratégies alimentaires dans les emporia des mers nordiques

• Published in: Médiévales
• Main Author: Malbos, Lucie
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: French
• Published: Presses universitaires de Vincennes 2019
• Subjects: exchange; food; Northwest Europe; ports; towns; alimentation; échanges; Europe du Nord-Ouest; villes; hist; hisphilso; Manger; Nordic Seas
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.4000/medievales.10012; http://journals.openedition.org/medievales/10012

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 w...