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Multidisciplinary approaches to food and foodways in the medieval Eastern Mediterranean / edited by Sylvie Yona Waksman.

By: People, pottery and food in the medieval Eastern Mediterranean (2016 : Lyon, France)Contributor(s): Waksman, S. Y. Sylvie Yona [editor.]Material type: TextTextLanguage: French, English Series: Archéologie(s) ; 4Publisher: Lyon : MOM éditions, 2020Description: 505 pages : chiefly color illustrations, maps, plans, facsimiles ; 30 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9782356680709; 2356680705Subject(s): To 1500 | Food habits -- Europe -- History -- To 1500 -- Congresses | Gastronomy -- History -- To 1500 -- Congresses | Archaeology, Medieval -- Congresses | Pottery, Roman -- Congresses | Social history -- Medieval, 500-1500 -- Congresses | Civilization, Medieval -- Congresses | Archaeology, Medieval | Civilization, Medieval | Food habits | Gastronomy | Pottery, Roman | Social history -- Medieval | Europe | Eastern MediterraneanGenre/Form: Conference papers and proceedings. | History.Summary: This volume brings together archaeologists, archaeological scientists and historians contributing different specialisms to an emerging field of research: food and foodways in the medieval Eastern Mediterranean. It presents the output of the POMEDOR project "People, pottery and food in the medieval Eastern Mediterranean" funded by the French National Research Agency. POMEDOR focused on changes in transitional periods, such as the Crusades and the Turkish conquests, as viewed through archaeological and archaeometric studies of pottery. The volume offers a wider scope, with research based on archaeobotany, archaeozoology, biological anthropology, and the study of archaeological structures, texts and iconography. Last but not least, it reveals the recipes conceived for a "Byzantine" dinner, held at the Paul Bocuse Institute during the final conference of the POMEDOR project.
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Papers in French and English.

Proceedings of the conference POMEDOR, "People, pottery and food in the medieval Eastern Mediterranean", Lyon, Maison de l'Orient de la Méditerranée, 19-21 mai 2016.

Includes bibliographical references.

This volume brings together archaeologists, archaeological scientists and historians contributing different specialisms to an emerging field of research: food and foodways in the medieval Eastern Mediterranean. It presents the output of the POMEDOR project "People, pottery and food in the medieval Eastern Mediterranean" funded by the French National Research Agency. POMEDOR focused on changes in transitional periods, such as the Crusades and the Turkish conquests, as viewed through archaeological and archaeometric studies of pottery. The volume offers a wider scope, with research based on archaeobotany, archaeozoology, biological anthropology, and the study of archaeological structures, texts and iconography. Last but not least, it reveals the recipes conceived for a "Byzantine" dinner, held at the Paul Bocuse Institute during the final conference of the POMEDOR project.