Feeding the Byzantine City
The Archaeology of Consumption in the Eastern Mediterranean (ca. 500-1500)
Edited by Joanita Vroom
Feeding the Byzantine City looks at consumption in the Byzantine world in the widest possible sense of the word, making it essential reading for scholars and a larger audience alike.
This book offers new and innovative perspectives on the archaeology of consumption in Byzantine cities and their hinterlands. Case-studies range from towns in eastern Macedonia, north-western and central Greece, and Crete to urban centres in Serbia, Bulgaria and western Turkey. The archaeological data and historical insights presented in this volume are always of great interest, often exciting, and more than once outright astonishing. The commodities discussed in the volume are dated between the 6th and the 16th century CE and include pottery (e.g., glazed table wares, amphorae, cooking pots, storage jars), textile fragments, metal objects, bronze and golden jewellery, marble carved slabs and columns. Feeding the City sheds compelling light on a world which was much more complex and interconnected than has often been assumed, which makes it essential reading for scholars and a larger audience alike.
- Edited by Joanita Vroom
Other Titles in this Series
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Material Culture, Settlements, and Landscapes from the Mediterranean to Western Asia
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Riches Beyond the Horizon
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The Hidden Life of Textiles in the Medieval and Early Modern Mediterranean
Contexts and Cross-Cultural Encounters in the Islamic, Latinate and Eastern Christian Worlds
Volume 3
Medieval MasterChef
Archaeological and Historical Perspectives on Eastern Cuisine and Western Foodways
Volume 2
Medieval and Post-Medieval Ceramics in the Eastern Mediterranean – Fact and Fiction
Proceedings of the First International Conference on Byzantine and Ottoman Archaeology, Amsterdam, 21-23 October 2011
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