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  • Publisher:
    Cambridge University Press
    Publication date:
    November 2025
    December 2025
    ISBN:
    9781009602488
    9781009602440
    DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009602488
    Dimensions:
    (229 x 152 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    384 Pages
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    • Subjects:
    British History 1066-1450, Area Studies, European History 1000-1450, History, European Studies, Economic History
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series
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    Subjects:
    British History 1066-1450, Area Studies, European History 1000-1450, History, European Studies, Economic History
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series
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    The long-held view of the peasantry as a passive social group has gradually been replaced by a positive narrative that stresses peasant agency in economic, social, and even political terms. Contributing to this shift, Luis Almenar Fernández explores the objects that peasants used to store, cook, and serve their food in late medieval Valencia. Drawing on a range of archival, visual, material, and literary evidence from c. 1280 to c. 1460, the book examines the materiality of food to shed light on the consumer behaviour of agriculturalists during pivotal economic, social, and material transformation. It builds on discussions about changes in living standards, consumption patterns, and material culture in pre-industrial European societies. The materiality of food improved significantly among Valencian peasants during this period. This phenomenon had widespread implications for the economy and underpinned the development of new industries, contributing to the economic growth of this prominent Mediterranean polity.

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