IMC 2016: Sessions

Session 115: In Addition to Daily Bread, I: Feeding Europe on Fridays

Monday 4 July 2016, 11.15-12.45

Sponsor:	'Creating the New North' Research Programme, Universitetet i Tromsø - Norges arktiske universitet
Organiser:	Sigrun Høgetveit Berg, Department of Archaeology, History, Religious Studies and Theology, The Arctic University of Norwa
Moderator/Chair:	Miriam Tveit, Fakultetet for Samfunnsvitenskap, Nord universitet
Paper 115-a	In Cod We Trust: Stockfish Production and North-Norwegian Coastal Society (Language: English) Stefan Figenschow, Department of Archaeology, History, Religious Studies and Theology, The Arctic University of Tromsø Index terms: Demography, Economics - Rural, Geography and Settlement Studies
Paper 115-b	Fish and Ships: Getting the Stockfish to the European Consumer (Language: English) Magne Njåstad, Department of Historical Studies, Norwegian University of Science & Technology, Trondheim Index terms: Economics - Trade, Economics - Urban, Geography and Settlement Studies
Abstract	Production of vast amounts of dried cod along the barren coast of Arctic Norway supported a population already by 1110 closely tied into a European commercial economy, which had deep implications for the course of social development. Transporting dried stockfish from the far north involved a network of local shippers based on Bergen, and a further network of international transport organized by Norwegian and foreign merchants. Of increasing prominence was the Hanseatic League, whose control over the trade involved a complex network of debt relationships with both fishermen and producers and the merchants of Bergen.