Food production and consumption on Durham Priory's estate, c. 1250-1500

达勒姆修道院庄园的粮食生产和消费，c。

• 批准号: 2756949
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Durham University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2756949
• 关键词: Food; production; consumption; Durham; Priory

Few periods have proved as contentious in explaining the modern economy as the late Middle Ages, long sparred over by Marxists and neo-Malthusians, as well as historians of commercialisation, gender and the environment. By comparison, food history has largely been seen as a peripheral area in these debates, when in reality it is of central importance. The field has been especially impeded by an excessive tendency to demarcate between interpreting food as an economic resource on the one hand, and a cultural and social symbol on the other. In reality, food transcended these categories, its economic character symbiotically connected to its cultural. Markets, for example, were shaped partly by taste, while gift giving and gender dynamics shifted according to wages and recession. This thesis will provide a holistic view of both the production and consumption of medieval food and will recalibrate the scope, methodology and conceptual underpinnings of medieval food history. This will be achieved through a study of Durham Priory, one of the most influential and well-documented households in late medieval England, and of vital importance to the north-eastern economy. Using the rich and underutilised records of Durham Priory, this project will create novel quantitative datasets to assess the estate's production, prices, profits, market relations, wages, gift giving and alms, among other datasets. This will offer a case study of the changing role of food during dichotomous period of English history, which experienced environmental catastrophe, famine, disease and recession butparadoxically also cultural renewal and rebirth.

在解释现代经济方面，很少有哪个时期像中世纪晚期那样充满争议，马克思主义者和新马尔萨斯主义者以及商业化、性别和环境历史学家长期争论不休。相比之下，食物史在这些争论中基本上被视为边缘领域，而实际上它是至关重要的。这一领域尤其受到一种过度倾向的阻碍，即在将食物解释为一种经济资源与一种文化和社会象征之间划清界限。事实上，食物超越了这些类别，它的经济特征与其文化共生。例如，市场在一定程度上取决于品味，而送礼和性别动态则根据工资和经济衰退而变化。本论文将提供一个全面的观点，既生产和消费的中世纪食品，并将重新校准的范围，方法和概念基础的中世纪食品史。这将通过对达勒姆修道院的研究来实现，达勒姆修道院是中世纪晚期英格兰最有影响力和记录最完整的家族之一，对东北部经济至关重要。利用达勒姆修道院丰富而未充分利用的记录，该项目将创建新的定量数据集，以评估遗产的生产，价格，利润，市场关系，工资，送礼和施舍等数据集。这将提供一个在英国历史的二分法时期，经历了环境灾难，饥荒，疾病和经济衰退，但矛盾的是，也文化的更新和重生的食物的角色变化的案例研究。