IMC 2023: Sessions
Session 641: Words and Things: Reconstructing Foodways from Medieval Vocabulary and the Material Record
Tuesday 4 July 2023, 11.15-12.45
| Organiser: | Mathias Blobel, Avdeling for kulturhistorie, Universitetsmuseet i Bergen |
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| Moderator/Chairs: | Mathias Blobel, Avdeling for kulturhistorie, Universitetsmuseet i Bergen Bethany Rogers, School of Humanities, University of Iceland, Reykjavík |
| Paper 641-a | Mincing Words: Insights into Western Norwegian Foodways from Narrative and Non-Narrative Written Sources (and a Little Bio-Archaeology) (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Artefacts, Daily Life, Language and Literature - Scandinavian, Social History |
| Paper 641-b | Milk Moo-Stache: Hoarding Butter-Based Riches in Medieval Iceland (Language: English) Index terms: Daily Life, Language and Literature - Scandinavian, Social History |
| Paper 641-c | Recipes, Ingredients, Objects, and Gestures from Collections of Recipes from the Late Middle Ages in Spain (Language: English) Index terms: Daily Life, Language and Literature - Spanish or Portuguese |
| Abstract | Food history is by its nature a field of inquiry that can be approached from many disciplinary angles. While in the field of history and its related disciplines, a dedicated field of study started to coalesce in the late 1970s, archaeologists and archaeometrists have created and benefited from increasingly sophisticated methods of molecular fingerprinting in the last decades, allowing them for the first time to approach the partial reconstruction of ancient diets. This multidisciplinary interest has not always resulted in interdisciplinary cooperation and synthesis, however. This session seeks to bring together scholars from different disciplines, contrasting the vocabulary around foodstuffs, eating, and food preparation in narrative and non-narrative sources from the Middle Ages with the material record. |