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CLOSEProduction, Processing and Distribution of Agricultural Products in Peloponnese from the Middle Byzantine to the Late Byzantine Period
Maria Leontsini, Angeliki Panopoulou
The aim of the project is the recording and geographical mapping of agricultural production and its manufacturing and commercial exploitation in the Peloponnese during the Middle and the Late Byzantine periods. With a view to highlighting the changes that had a negative and positive impact on the agricultural economy ‒such as natural disasters, military conflicts, human interventions in the landscape, technological advancements, consumer behavior, and increased demand for specific products‒ the project will address the following key areas:
- the type, species, varieties and quantity of agricultural, livestock, forestry and marine products,
- the processing and industrial infrastructure and agricultural tools, and
- the commercial centres ‒ local and Mediterranean ‒ involved in the distribution, storage, packaging, and transport of products from the Peloponnese and their derivatives
The starting point for this project was the research conducted for the development of the databases created within the framework of two research projects (Kyrtou plegmata – Krepis program and Anavathmis program) of IHR/NHRF “Agricultural networks for the production and distribution of products in the Peloponnese during the Byzantine period”: https://kripis2.anavathmis.eu/2-9/ and “Raw Materials, Natural Resources and Agricultural Products. Documents on the Peloponnese (4th‒15th Century)”: https://anavathmis.eu/2_1_3/.
The results of the project are planned to feed the compilation of studies and an interdisciplinary volume.
- E. Balta, A. Panopoulou, “Ελαιώνες, ελαιοπαραγωγή και εμπόριο λαδιού στην Πελοπόννησο (13ος-19ος αι.)” [Olive groves, Oil Production and Oil Trade in the Peloponnese (13th-19th century)], in: Olives and Olive Oil in the Eastern Mediterranean from Antiquity to Pre-industrial times, eds. I. Anagnostakis, E. Balta, PIOP – IHR/NHRF, Athens 2020, 365-386.
- A. Panopoulou, “Παραγωγή και εμπόριο αλατιού στην Πελοπόννησο (13ος‒16ος αι.)” [Salt Production and Trade in the Peloponnese (13th-16th century)], in: Money and Markets in the Palaeologan Era 13th-15th c., ed. N. G. Moschonas, IBR, NHRF, Athens 2003, 157-179.
- M. Leontsini, Scientific Two-day Conference entitled: και το τραπέζιν έστησαν με την εξόπλισίν του… Συμπόσια και αστική διατροφή στον Παλαιολόγειο Μυστρά (Mystras, 24-25 November 2023). Title of paper: “Σφάγια και κυνήγι στις τράπεζες του δεσποτάτου του Μυστρά” [Dining with Meat and Game in the Despotate of Mystras].
- A. Panopoulou, Scientific Two-day Conference entitled: και το τραπέζιν έστησαν με την εξόπλισίν του… Συμπόσια και αστική διατροφή στον Παλαιολόγειο Μυστρά (Mystras, 24‒25 November 2023). Title of paper: “Λαχανικά, φρούτα και όσπρια στη διατροφή των κατοίκων της νοτιοδυτικής Πελοποννήσου (14ος‒15ος αι.)” [“Vegetables, Fruits and Legumes in the Diet of the Inhabitants of the Southwestern Peloponnese (14th-15th century)”].