Feeding Cities: Antiquity to the Middle Ages

The NYU Center for Ancient Studies presents the Rose-Marie Lewent Conference
Feeding Cities: Antiquity to the Middle Ages

Thursday-Friday, April 4-5, 2024 @ 12:00-2:30pm
via Zoom

This virtual event is free and open to the public, but registration is required. Please register using the links below.

Ancient and medieval cities were home to many people who were not engaged in agriculture, animal husbandry, hunting, fishing, and plant collection. The question of how ancient city dwellers obtained food has been of interest to archaeologists and historians for at least 100 years. This conference will present new research, based on zooarchaeology, archaeobotany, and historical sources, that addresses the questions of what the inhabitants of ancient and medieval cities ate and how they obtained their food.

THURSDAY, APRIL 4
12:00 p.m. WELCOME AND INTRODUCTION
Matthew S. Santirocco, NYU
Pam Crabtree, NYU

SESSION 1
Moderator: Pam Crabtree, NYU

12:15 p.m.
Feeding Ḫattuša: Crop Production and Storage in Hittite Anatolia
Lorenzo Castellano, NYU

1:00 p.m.
Animals, Plants, and Pots: The Development of Urban Foodways in the Ancient Greek World
Flint Dibble, Dartmouth

1:45 p.m.
Food Production and Consumption in Byzantine Athens
Panagiota Mantouvalou, Center for Byzantine, Ottoman, and Modern Greek Studies

Register for Thursday, April 4

FRIDAY, APRIL 5
SESSION 2
Moderator: Pam Crabtree, NYU

12:00 p.m.
People and Animals and Medieval Winchester
Mark Maltby, Bournemouth

12:45 p.m.
What Does Feeding Cities Nurture? Diverse Urbanisms in Early Medieval Britain and Ireland
John Soderberg, Denison

1:30 p.m.
Meat and Fish Consumption in Medieval and Post-Medieval Monasteries in Barcelona (Spain) according to Zooarchaeological and Documentary Evidences
Lluís Lloveras, Barcelona

Register for Friday, April 5

For more information, contact the NYU Center for Ancient Studies at 212.992.7978 or at ancient.studies@nyu.edu.