Chapter Feeding inequalities: the role of economic inequalities and the urban market in late medieval food security. The case of fourteenth-century Ghent
Although the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) revised their theoretical model of food security for over two decades ago, historians have been slow in adopting these new insights to study pre-modern societies. Showcasing the potential of the holistic approach proposed by the FAO, this paper a...
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| description | Although the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) revised their theoretical model of food security for over two decades ago, historians have been slow in adopting these new insights to study pre-modern societies. Showcasing the potential of the holistic approach proposed by the FAO, this paper analyses the evolution of food security in the calamitous fourteenth century in Ghent, one the most populated cities at that time. In the long-term, access to food seem to have bettered during the second half of the century thanks to increased wages, wealth and investments into farmland. While these gains can partly be linked to demographic evolutions, we found no evidence of an often-hypothesized Malthusian ceiling before the Black Death. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-834282022-06-02T04:30:55Z Chapter Feeding inequalities: the role of economic inequalities and the urban market in late medieval food security. The case of fourteenth-century Ghent Espeel, Stef Geens, Sam economic inequality economic history low countries ghent pre-industrial age Although the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) revised their theoretical model of food security for over two decades ago, historians have been slow in adopting these new insights to study pre-modern societies. Showcasing the potential of the holistic approach proposed by the FAO, this paper analyses the evolution of food security in the calamitous fourteenth century in Ghent, one the most populated cities at that time. In the long-term, access to food seem to have bettered during the second half of the century thanks to increased wages, wealth and investments into farmland. While these gains can partly be linked to demographic evolutions, we found no evidence of an often-hypothesized Malthusian ceiling before the Black Death. 2022-06-02T04:30:54Z 2022-06-02T04:30:54Z 2022-06-01T12:11:42Z 2020 chapter ONIX_20220601_9788855180535_215 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/56032 9788855180535 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/83428 eng Datini Studies in Economic History open access image/jpeg Attribution 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/56032/1/14224.pdf Firenze University Press 10.36253/978-88-5518-053-5.25 10.36253/978-88-5518-053-5.25 2ec4474d-93b1-4cfa-b313-9c6019b51b1a 9788855180535 40 Florence open access |
| spellingShingle | economic inequality economic history low countries ghent pre-industrial age Espeel, Stef Geens, Sam Chapter Feeding inequalities: the role of economic inequalities and the urban market in late medieval food security. The case of fourteenth-century Ghent |
| title | Chapter Feeding inequalities: the role of economic inequalities and the urban market in late medieval food security. The case of fourteenth-century Ghent |
| title_full | Chapter Feeding inequalities: the role of economic inequalities and the urban market in late medieval food security. The case of fourteenth-century Ghent |
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| title_full_unstemmed | Chapter Feeding inequalities: the role of economic inequalities and the urban market in late medieval food security. The case of fourteenth-century Ghent |
| title_short | Chapter Feeding inequalities: the role of economic inequalities and the urban market in late medieval food security. The case of fourteenth-century Ghent |
| title_sort | chapter feeding inequalities the role of economic inequalities and the urban market in late medieval food security the case of fourteenth century ghent |
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