IMC 2020: Sessions
Session 146: Food and Boundaries: Food as a Religious, Gender, and Social Marker in Late Medieval Times
Monday 6 July 2020, 11.15-12.45
| Organiser: | Francesca Tasca, Independent Scholar, Bergamo |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Andrea Maraschi, Department of History & Philosophy, University of Iceland |
| Respondent: | Andrea Maraschi, Department of History & Philosophy, University of Iceland |
| Paper 146-a | Becoming a Heretic by Eating according to Walter Map (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Mentalities, Religious Life |
| Paper 146-b | The Boundaries of Labor in Medieval Iceland: Dairy-Driven Division of Women‘s Work (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Sites, Daily Life, Economics - Rural, Gender Studies |
| Paper 146-c | Diet of the Saint-Jean de Todon Elite: A Pilot Study Using Stable Isotope Analysis (Language: English) Index terms: Anthropology, Archaeology - Sites, Science |
| Abstract | This session aims to highlight the connections between food, religious groups, social classes, and gender in the High and Late Middle Ages (9th to 14th centuries). Papers will address the role that food, diet, and food production played as markers of physical, non-physical, and social boundaries between high and late medieval people. Attention will be focused on three different aspects: 1) becoming heretic or protecting oneself from heresy by consuming specific foods and ingredients according to Walter Map; 2) gendered spaces and gendered boundaries in the dairy production of medieval Iceland; 3) differences in diet and social hierarchies in southern France (9th-12th cent.) on the basis of the remains of the medieval Christian cemetery of Saint-Jean de Todon. |