One of the main characteristics of the medieval city was that of being an area of consumption, which modalities and levels changed according to the epoch, the technologies and the demographic dimensions. The city generated a chain of supply, which began with the production of food and included the transport, storage, transformation, purchase and sale. On the other hand, the nourishment was not only refered to a physiological need of the human beings, but also to the technologies of production and supply, to the social structures, and to the set of determining cultural that takes form of a few certain nourishing diets. All these topics will be analysed from three axis:
 Medieval city and its nourishing resources.
 Supply and urban medieval markets.
 Nourishing Diet in the medieval city.

CALL FOR PAPERS:

Historians and Graduate students are encouraged to submit abstracts for research presentations on topics related to the last three topics about feeding the city in the Middle Ages. Abstracts should be no more than 350 words and should clearly state the purpose, thesis, methodology, and principal findings of the paper to be presented. Successful proposals will be pusblished in 2009.

All abstracts should be submitted electronically (either as a MS Word document or as text in the body of an e-mail) to Dr. Jesús A. Solórzano Telechea at solorzaja@unican.es. The deadline for submissions will be April 25, 2008.

The conference will take place in Nájera (Spain), from July 22-25, 2008

The deadline for submissions will be April 25, 2008