Reconstructing Past Monastic Life: Volume 2: Diet, Landscape and Monastic Space

Reconstructing Past Monastic Life: Volume 2: Diet, Landscape and Monastic Space

New Trends from Archaeological, Bioanthropological and Documentary Perspectives

Rissech, Carme; Nadal, Jordi; Lloveras, Lluis; Banks, Philip

Casemate Publishers

03/2025

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Introduction by the editors

Part 1: Monastic diet

1. Birds consumed in the Middle Ages in religious houses in Britain and Ireland
Dale Serjeantson

2. Meat and monastic meals: the case of the friary of Santa Caterina in Barcelona (northeastern Spain) during medieval and postmedieval periods
Carme Querol, Jordi Nadal, Josefa Huertas and Lluis Lloveras

3. Seal, whale, cod and guillemot: monastic diet and the Benedictine Rule in medieval Iceland
Helene Benkert, Steinunn Kristjansdottir and James G. Clark

4. Revisiting dietary norms: insights from animal bone analysis on food practices in the Abbey of HeninBeaumont (Nord, France)
Tarek Oueslati and Damien Censier

5. The importance of mammalian meat in the diet of the Poor Clare nuns of the monastery of Santa Maria de Pedralbes (Barcelona) according to zooarchaeological and documentary data
Lluis Lloveras, Jordi Nadal, Anna Castellano, Josep Cruells and Santiago Riera

6. Zooarchaeological studies at the Sant Agusti Vell friary (Barcelona): a model of dietary practices in a mendicant order
Jordi Nadal, Lluis Lloveras and Ricard Marlasca

7. An insight into the dietary habits at the monastery of St Barbara (southwestern Serbia) during the early modern period: a zooarchaeological perspective
Teodora Mladenovic, Mladen Mladenovic and Irina Kajtez

8. Vinum oleum cera spens et mel: what documents can reveal about the medieval monastic diet
Karen Stoeber

Part 2: Monastic landscapes, spaces and buildings

9. The uses of water in a Cistercian nunnery through archaeology: the kitchen and the refectory
Ester Penas Gonzalez

10. To share or not to share: churches of Canons Regular in the western Alps (former Diocese of Geneva, from the 13th century onwards)
Sidonie Bochaton

11. Changing and unchanging: interpreting the architectural and archaeological space of the monastery Santa Maria de Pedralbes through Spatial Syntax Analysis
Yang Mei and Ji Zhiwei

12. The medieval monastery of Sant Genis de Rocafort (Martorell, Barcelona): life, death, power and social distinction after ten years of archaeological excavation and material analysis
Esther Trave, Josep Socorregut, Rosario Navarro and Montserrat Farreny

13. Irrigation and urbanisation: the role of the convent of Sant Pere de les Puelles (Barcelona) in the 12th and 13th centuries
Philip Banks

14. Monasteries on islands: archaeoanthropological research approaches across and beyond Europe
Sophie Hueglin

15. Catchment, exchanges and acquisition of materials, products and goods at the monastery of Santa Cecilia dels Altimiris (5th to 8th centuries)
Walter Alegria and Marta Sancho

16. Ecclesiastical marriage in the Church of the East: a polemic in the Monastery of Mount Izla
David Hernandez Jimenez