Τhe book focuses on the study and presentation of olive cultivation and on issues concerning the production, distribution and marketing of olive oil in the Eastern Mediterranean. This geographical area, apart from its roughly similar climatic and environmental features, was defined by the dominant political systems which imposed certain production and marketing practices on the olive and its products.
The volume "Multidisciplinary approaches to food and foodways in the medieval Eastern Mediterranean" will come out this winter.
It contains papers presented at the final conference of the POMEDOR project, as well as the making of and the recipes of the "Byzantine" dinner which was created on the occasion at the Bocuse Institute.
We will keep you posted!
POMEDOR conference “Byzantine” dinner at the Paul Bocuse Institute (Écully, France): guests and students of the “Worldwide Alliance” program, with replicas of Byzantine pottery on the table (above, photo Paul Bocuse Institute); the “Eustathios’ quail pie” with pulses, the output of a collective research by historian Ilias Anagnostakis, food historian Andrew Dalby, cook and archaeologist Sally Grainger and the Bocuse team (below, photo Anemon Productions).
J. Koder, Landwirtschaft beiderseits der Stadtmauern. Konstantinopels Versorgung mit Gemüse aufgrund der Geoponika, Jahrbuch für Geschichte des ländlichen Raumes 16, 181–228 (2019).
Abstract:
The comparison of chemical compositions of ceramic bodies of nine Byzantine plates kept in the Musée national de céramique, Sèvres, with those of reference archaeological samples enabled us to associate most of the plates to the 12th-13th century production of Chalcis. Two pieces, however, raise the question of authenticity. Geochemical perturbations related to prolonged immersion in a marine environment are also discussed and a specific methodology is proposed.
Many of us, all around the world, are confined. To help us continue our research, the librarians of the "Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée" in Lyon regularly informs us about online resources made more accessible. The following link gathers many of them on the Couperin website:
list of online resources made available during confinement
Many thanks to the Couperin contributors, and to the librarians of the "MOM", with special thanks to Marie Chebance!
"Bon courage" to all of you
... for a happy and creative year 2020!
The French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) opens permanent researcher positions this year, including one which will be preferably attributed to a specialist in "History and archaeology of materials: Antiquity and Middle-Ages" ("Histoire et archéologie des matériaux : Antiquité et Moyen Âge").
General information
http://www.dgdr.cnrs.fr/drhchercheurs/concoursch/informer/default-fr.htm
New populations in Western Anatolia at the beginning of the Turkish periods also brought new pottery types, technology of manufacture and raw material procurement, as presented in this paper in the case of the 'Miletus Ware'.
The 4th International Scientific Conference “Historical, Cultural, International, Religious and Political Relations of the Crimea with the Mediterranean Region and Eastern Countries” will be held in cooperation with the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, The State Historical and Archeological Museum-Preserve “Tauric Chersonese”, the Sevastopol State University from May 26 to May 31, 2020, on the basis of The State Historical and Archeological Museum-Preserve “Tauric Chersonese”, and the Sevastopol State University.
Francine Blondé passed away, on Valentine's day.
Archaeologist and ceramologist specializing in the Greek world, she had been a Belgian member of the French School at Athens, and co-directed several archaeological excavations in Greece, especially in Thasos.
She became a CNRS researcher at the "Maison de l'Orient" in Lyon in 1991, in what was then the "Laboratoire de Céramologie" directed by Maurice Picon, before joining her thasian colleagues Dominique Mulliez and Arthur Muller in Lille in 2005.
She had special interest in craftmanship, especially pottery, and directed several programs on this topic.
Those who met her will remember her scientific curiosity, and what a warm, delicate and generous person she was.
Ya', la Blondé.
Yona Waksman
