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The Hungry City: A Year in the Life of Medieval Barcelona

The Hungry City: A Year in the Life of Medieval Barcelona

Kelleher, Marie A.

Hardcover

Series: Medieval Societies, Religions, and Cultures

Medieval & Renaissance HistoryGeneral SociologySpainish & Portuguese History

ISBN10: 1501779389
ISBN13: 9781501779381
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: Jan 15 2025
Pages: 270
Weight: 1.25
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

The Hungry City is the story of medieval Barcelona, retold through the lens of food and famine. Between the summer of 1333 and the spring of 1334, severe weather-related grain shortages spread throughout the Mediterranean, and Barcelona's leaders struggled to bring food to the city as its residents grew increasingly desperate. Employing the perspectives of historical actors whose stories are drawn from the records of that catastrophic year, Marie A. Kelleher uses Barcelonans' varied responses to crisis in the food system to present multiple ways of understanding the city--as a physical space, as the center of a network of Mediterranean commerce, as one powerful entity within a broader monarchy, as a site of religious encounter, and as a complex social body. Even as the central figure in each chapter offers their own version of the city, the separate strands of these multiple Barcelonas intertwine to reveal the fabric of the city as a whole.

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