ARCHÉOLOGIE ( S ) // 4
MULTIDISCIPLINARY APPROACHES
TO FOOD AND FOODWAYS
IN THE MEDIEVAL EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN
edited by Sylvie Yona Waksman
MULTIDISCIPLINARY APPROACHES TO FOOD AND FOODWAYS IN THE MEDIEVAL EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN
ARCHÉOLOGIE ( S ) // 4
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.
Dans ce volume, archéologues, archéomètres et historiens contribuent par différentes approches à un domaine de recherche
émergent : les pratiques alimentaires en Méditerranée orientale médiévale. Il présente les résultats du programme ANR POMEDOR
« Populations, poteries et alimentation en Méditerranée orientale médiévale », qui abordait l’évolution de ces pratiques lors
de périodes de transition, telles que les croisades ou les conquêtes turques, principalement au travers d’études archéologiques
et archéométriques de céramiques. Cet ouvrage couvre un champ plus large, incluant l’archéozoologie, l’archéobotanique,
l’anthropologie biologique, l’étude des structures archéologiques, des textes et de l’iconographie. Enfin, il dévoile les recettes
conçues pour un dîner « byzantin » clôturant le programme POMEDOR, organisé à l’Institut Paul Bocuse.
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ISBN 978-2-35668-070-9
ISSN 2724-8933
65 €
Contents
Sylvie Yona Waksman
Foreword
Elli Tzavella
Corinth: beyond the forum. Use of ceramics, social implications
and settlement pattern (12th‑13th centuries)
INTRODUCTION
Joanita Vroom
Eating in Aegean lands (ca 700‑1500): Perspectives on pottery
Sally Grainger
Recipe: Pickle de légumes with oinogaron
Sylvie Yona Waksman
Introduction. The POMEDOR project “People, pottery and food in the
medieval Eastern Mediterranean”
Andrew Dalby
The making of the Byzantine dinner, by a participant observer
CYPRUS AND THE LEVANT
Sally Grainger
Recipe: Bouillon léger de poissons et fruits de mer (monokythron)
Philippe Trélat
Du lac de Limassol aux tables de Nicosie : pêcheries et consommation
de poisson à Chypre sous la domination latine (1191‑1570)
Gilles Grivaud
Les tavernes (canutes) comme instruments de contrôle économique
et social dans le royaume de Chypre aux xiiie‑xvie siècles
Iryna Teslenko
The composition of church festive meals in a medieval Christian community
in the southern Crimea, based on ceramics and faunal materials
Zeynep Mercangöz
A pottery production for whom and for what target? Thoughts on pottery
finds from Kadıkalesi (Kuşadası) excavation
Michel Balard
L’approvisionnement des villes d’Orient par les marchands italiens
(xiiie‑xve siècle)
Vedat Onar
Animals in food consumption during the Byzantine period in light
of the Yenikapı metro and Marmaray excavations, Istanbul
Anna Elena Reuter
Food production and consumption in the Byzantine Empire in light
of the archaeobotanical finds
Nicholas Coureas
Food, wine and the Latin clergy of Lusignan Cyprus (1191‑1473)
Chryssa Bourbou
The biocultural model applied: Synthesizing research on Greek Byzantine
diet (7th‑15th century AD)
Ruth Smadar Gabrieli, Sylvie Yona Waksman, Anastasia Shapiro, Alessandra Pecci
Archaeological and archaeometric investigations of cooking wares in
Frankish and Venetian Cyprus
Jacques Burlot, Sylvie Yona Waksman, Beate Böhlendorf‑Arslan, Joanita Vroom
Changing people, dining habits and pottery technologies: Tableware
productions on the eve of the Ottoman Empire in western Anatolia
Edna J. Stern, Sylvie Yona Waksman, Anastasia Shapiro
The impact of the Crusades on ceramic production and use
in the southern Levant: Continuity or change?
Filiz Yenişehirlioğlu
Ottoman period sources for the study of food and pottery
(15th‑18th centuries)
Elisabeth Yehuda
Between oven and Tannur: “Frankish” and “indigenous” kitchens
in the Holy Land in the Crusader period
Anastasia Shapiro, Edna J. Stern, Nimrod Getzov, Sylvie Yona Waksman
Ceramic evidence for sugar production in the ‘Akko plain: Typology
and provenance studies
Richard Jones, Anthony Grey
Some thoughts on sugar production and sugar pots in the Fatimid,
Crusader/Ayyubid and Early Mamluk periods in Jordan
TRADING GOODS, TRADING TASTES
Sally Grainger
Recipe: Omelette soufflée & Sweet salad
Evelina Todorova
One amphora, different contents: The multiple purposes of Byzantine
amphorae according to written and archaeological data
Alessandra Pecci, Nicolas Garnier, Sylvie Yona Waksman
Residue analysis of medieval amphorae from the Eastern Mediterranean
Sally Grainger
Recipe: Quail pie & Mixed pulses
Yana Morozova, Sylvie Yona Waksman, Sergey Zelenko
Byzantine amphorae of the 10th‑13th centuries from the Novy Svet
shipwrecks, Crimea, the Black Sea: Preliminary typology
and archaeometric studies
Ilias Anagnostakis
“What is plate and cooking pot and food and bread and table all at
the same time?”
George Koutsouflakis
The transportation of amphorae, tableware and foodstuffs in the Middle
and Late Byzantine period: The evidence from Aegean shipwrecks
Béatrice Caseau
Dogs, vultures, horses and black pudding: Unclean meats in the eyes of
the Byzantines
Valentina Vezzoli
Food habits and tableware in Venice: The connection with the Mamluk Sultanate
BYZANTIUM AND BEYOND
Nikos D. Kontogiannis, Stefania S. Skartsis, with contributions by Giannis Vaxevanis,
Sylvie Yona Waksman
Ceramic vessels and food consumption: Chalcis as a major production
and distribution center in the Byzantine and Frankish periods
2020 – 508 pages, 153 illustrations
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CONCLUDING REMARKS
Johannes Koder
Multidisciplinary approaches to food and foodways in the medieval Eastern
Mediterranean: Concluding remarks to the POMEDOR symposium