The nature of the feast: commensality and the politics of consumption in Viking Age and Early Medieval Northern Europe
In Early Medieval Northern Europe, food was more than mere sustenance. Rather, dietary choices were used to define and manipulate identity and shape power politics. Using the Norse Earldom of Orkney as a case study and commensality as an analytical framework, the authors explore how the archaeology...
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ftuglasgow:oai:eprints.gla.ac.uk:181086 2023-05-15T17:32:17+02:00 The nature of the feast: commensality and the politics of consumption in Viking Age and Early Medieval Northern Europe Mainland, Ingrid Batey, Colleen 2018 text http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/181086/ http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/181086/9/181086.pdf en eng Taylor and Francis http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/181086/9/181086.pdf Mainland, I. and Batey, C. <http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/view/author/3031.html> (2018) The nature of the feast: commensality and the politics of consumption in Viking Age and Early Medieval Northern Europe. World Archaeology <http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/view/journal_volume/World_Archaeology.html>, 50(5), pp. 781-803. (doi:10.1080/00438243.2019.1578260 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00438243.2019.1578260>) Articles PeerReviewed 2018 ftuglasgow https://doi.org/10.1080/00438243.2019.1578260 2021-01-14T23:09:07Z In Early Medieval Northern Europe, food was more than mere sustenance. Rather, dietary choices were used to define and manipulate identity and shape power politics. Using the Norse Earldom of Orkney as a case study and commensality as an analytical framework, the authors explore how the archaeology of food, and in particular zooarchaeological evidence, can be used alongside near contemporary historical sources to better understand the political and social role of food, as well as the likely scale and impact of commensal activities on farming economies and environments in the Medieval North Atlantic. They argue that feasting and, by extension, the mechanisms by which preferentially consumed foodstuffs were grown, procured and processed, would have had a transformative impact on Norse society at diverse scales, from enabling individuals to participate in social negotiations to driving local and regional economies. Article in Journal/Newspaper North Atlantic University of Glasgow: Enlighten - Publications World Archaeology 50 5 781 803 |
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In Early Medieval Northern Europe, food was more than mere sustenance. Rather, dietary choices were used to define and manipulate identity and shape power politics. Using the Norse Earldom of Orkney as a case study and commensality as an analytical framework, the authors explore how the archaeology of food, and in particular zooarchaeological evidence, can be used alongside near contemporary historical sources to better understand the political and social role of food, as well as the likely scale and impact of commensal activities on farming economies and environments in the Medieval North Atlantic. They argue that feasting and, by extension, the mechanisms by which preferentially consumed foodstuffs were grown, procured and processed, would have had a transformative impact on Norse society at diverse scales, from enabling individuals to participate in social negotiations to driving local and regional economies. |
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The nature of the feast: commensality and the politics of consumption in Viking Age and Early Medieval Northern Europe |
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http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/181086/9/181086.pdf Mainland, I. and Batey, C. <http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/view/author/3031.html> (2018) The nature of the feast: commensality and the politics of consumption in Viking Age and Early Medieval Northern Europe. World Archaeology <http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/view/journal_volume/World_Archaeology.html>, 50(5), pp. 781-803. (doi:10.1080/00438243.2019.1578260 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00438243.2019.1578260>) |
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