Food worthy of kings and saints: fish consumption in the Medieval monastery Studenica (Serbia)

• Main Authors: Živaljević, Ivana, Marković, Nemanja, Maksimović, Milomir
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: Medieval fish trade; Sturgeons; Feasts; Religious celebrations; Studenica monastery; Lent; The Ramparts; Beluga; Beluga*
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/3998715; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3998715

The paper focuses on fish consumption and long distance fish trade in the Medieval monastery Studenica in Serbia, from the perspective of archaeozoology, historical sources and pictorial evidence. Medieval written sources on the subject suggest that fish was available primarily to particular social...