16 JANUARY 2025
King’s College London

Strand Campus
King’s Building
Old Committee Room

http://www.ecomeds.co.uk
ecomeds@kcl.ac.uk

Programme :

10:00-10:30-Welcome Coffee

10:30-10:45 –Alexandra Sapoznik (King’s College London) – Introduction to ECOMEDS

FIRST PANEL – PASTORALISM

10:45-11:00-Eleni Sakellariou (University of Crete) – Transhumant pastoralism in late medieval Southern Italy. Natural resources, markets and products
11:00-11:15-Maria Antonia Carmona (Universidad de Sevilla) – The production and consumption of cheese and milk in Southern Iberia during the Late Middle Ages
11:15-11:30-Davide Cristofori (Universite Libre de Bruxelles) – Cheese production and transhumance in late medieval Tuscany. Evidence and issues

11 :30-12:00-Discussion
12:00-12:15 -Break

SECOND PANEL – ARCHAEOLOGY

12:15-12:30-Annelise Binois-Roman (Sorbonne Universite) – Bones of contention. The (mis)use of mortality profiles and other issues in the zooarchaeological identification of milk production
12:30-12:45-Daniel Bradley (Trinity College Dublin) – Ancient genomes of cattle and sheep. The making of European diversity
12:45-13:00-Andrew Margetts (University College London) – TBD

13:00-13:30-Discussion
13:30-15:00-Lunch

THIRD PANEL – TRADE & CONSUMPTION

15:00-15:15-Enrico Basso (Universita degli Studi di Torino) – Men of the mountains, economy of the sea. Cheese, sheep, and other 9oods from inland to the Mediterranean
15:15-15:30-Fabrizio Ansani (King’s College London) – The cheesemongers, the merchant, and their account-books and let ters. For a quantitative analysis of the urban market in late medieval Prato
15:30-15:45-Frederic Aparisi (Universitat de Valencia) – Cheese production and trade in medieval Valencia
15:45-16:00-Llufs Sales i Fava (King’s College London) – Patterns of cheese consumption in an urban convent in the Late Middle Ages (Barcelona, 1356-1500)
16:00-16:30-Discussion

16:30-17:00-Closing Roundtable