Reconstructing Past Monastic Life: Volume 2: Diet, Landscape and Monastic Space

Lluís Lloveras is a researcher in the department of Archaeology and History at the University of Barcelona, from which he obtained a PhD. He is a specialist in zooarchaeology and taphonomy, focusing on the procurement of animal foods, past animal hunting and husbandry economies and examining the role of animals in past societies beyond serving as food, employing, in particular, neotaphonomic research, geometric morphometrics, isotopic analysis, animal palaeopathological and forensic taphonomic analysis. Carme Rissech is a senior lecturer in the Department of Basic Medical Sciences, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Reus, Spain and holds a PhD from the University Autonomous of Barcelona. She is an expert in the fields of palaeoanthropology and forensic anthropology, employing interdisciplinary approaches combining human bone analysis with documentary sources, histological and biomolecular analysis and medicine. Jordi Nadal is a reader in History and Archaeology at the University of Barcelona, from which he obtained his PhD. He specializes in zooarchaeology and taphonomy, focusing on various aspects of past humananimal relationship. He is also interested in the application of neotaphonomic models to better understand the origin of small prey accumulations in prehistoric archaeological sites. Philip Banks is a retired lecturer in English as a Foreign Language at the University of Barcelona, now an independent researcher in medieval history. He obtained a PhD in archaeology and history from Nottingham University, where he studied urban transformations between the 4th and 13th centuries in Catalonia, especially the city of Barcelona. He has translated archaeological and historical texts from Spanish and Catalan to English and collaborated with museums and archaeological services on projects concerning medieval documents and the archaeological interpretation of historical sources, especially as regards townscapes and the periurban zones of medieval cities.

• List of contributorsList of reviewersIntroduction by the editorsPart 1: Monastic diet1. Birds eaten in monastic houses in England in the Middle Ages (1066-1540): the archaeological evidenceDale Serjeantson2. Meat and monastic meals: the case of the friary of Santa Caterina in Barcelona (north-eastern Spain) during the medieval and post-medieval periodsCarme Querol, Jordi Nadal, Josefa Huertas, Lluís Lloveras3. Revisiting dietary rules: animal bone evidence of food practices at the 12th- to 16th-century Abbey of Notre-Dame sous l’Eurin, Hénin-Beaumont (Nord, France)Tarek Oueslati, Damien Censier4. Meat and fish in the nuns’ diet at the Monastery of Santa Maria de Pedralbes (Barcelona, Spain) in the medieval and modern periodsLluís Lloveras, Josep Cruells, Anna Castellano-Tresserra, Santiago Riera, Jordi Nadal5. Zooarchaeology studies at Sant Agustí Vell (Barcelona): consumption of food of animal origin in a mendicant orderJordi Nadal, Ricard Marlasca, Philip Banks, Lluís Lloveras6. An insight into dietary habits at the Monastery of St Barbara (south-western Serbia) during the early modern period: a zooarchaeological perspective)Teodora Mladenović, Mladen Mladenović, Irina Kajtez7. Vinum oleum cera spens et mel. What documents can reveal about the medieval monastic dietKaren StöberPart 2: Monastic landscapes, spaces and buildings8. The uses of water in a Cistercian nunnery through archaeology: the refectory and the kitchenEster Penas González9. To share or not to share. Churches of Regular Canons in the Western Alps (former Diocese of Geneva) from the 13th century onwardsSidonie Bochaton10. Interpretation of the archaeological and architectural space of the monastery of Santa Maria de Pedralbes based on space syntaxYang Mei, Ji Zhiwei11. The medieval priory of Sant Genís de Rocafort (Martorell, Barcelona): life, death, power and social hierarchy after ten years of archaeological excavation and material analysis.Esther Travé Allepuz, Josep Socorregut Domènech, Pablo del Fresno Bernal, Rosario Navarro Sáez, Montserrat Farreny Agràs, Alfred Mauri Martí12. Irrigation and urbanisation. The role of the convent of Sant Pere de les Puel·les (Barcelona) in the 12th and 13th centuries.Philip Banks13. Monasteries on Islands – archaeological research approaches across EuropeSophie Hüglin14. Socio-economic characterisation of the monastery of Santa Cecília de Els Altimiris (6th–7th centuries): supply areas and material cultureMarta Sancho Planas, Walter Alegría Tejedor15. Ecclesiastical marriage in the Apostolic Church of the East: a polemic reflected in the Monastery of Mount Îzlâ. New interpretationsDavid Hernández Jiménez16. The monastic landscape in Castile in the early Middle Ages: mirage or miracle?José Ángel Lecanda