IMC 2016: Sessions
Session 1216: Famine, Dearth, and Food Supply in the Mediterranean World: New Approaches from Catalonian Evidence, II
Wednesday 6 July 2016, 14.15-15.45
| Sponsor: | Project 'Mercados alimenticios en la Edad Media: actores, mecanismos y dinámicas' (HAR2012-31802, MINECO, Gobierno de España), Universitat de Lleida / Departament d'Història Medieval, Paleografia i Diplomàtica, Universitat de Barcelona |
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| Organisers: | Pere Benito i Monclús, Departament d'Història, Universitat de Lleida Rosa Lluch Bramon, Departament d'Història Medieval, Paleografia i Diplomàtica, Universitat de Barcelona Antoni Riera i Melis, Departament d'Història Medieval, Paleografia i Diplomàtica, Universitat de Barcelona |
| Moderator/Chair: | Antoni Riera i Melis, Departament d'Història Medieval, Paleografia i Diplomàtica, Universitat de Barcelona |
| Paper 1216-a | Medieval Food Markets: Origin, Structure, and Food Products of the Rural Markets in the County of Barcelona, 9th-13th Centuries (Language: English) Index terms: Computing in Medieval Studies, Economics - Rural, Economics - Trade, Social History |
| Paper 1216-b | Famine, Dearth, and Credit in North-Eastern Catalonia before the Black Death (Language: English) Index terms: Economics - Rural, Social History |
| Abstract | The study of food supply systems is enjoying some popularity in connection to the thriving study of the history of markets, which has increased awareness about the importance of distribution networks in preindustrial times. On the basis of mostly unexplored documentation available in Catalonia, the papers grouped in this session study different aspects of medieval food supply systems in this region: from its origin and structuration in the early Middle Ages, to its functioning and eventual failures in both urban and rural contexts. |