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Effects of Good Government in the countryside, c.1338-1339, Ambrogio Lorenzetti
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Harvesters, c.1565, Peter Bruegel the Elder
Programme
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Thursday 11 April
9h00 Introduction
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- Christine De Weerdt (Director STAM) - Opening of the conference
- Tim Soens (Antwerp, BE) - Welcome and Introductory remarks
- Cécile Bruyet, Stef Espeel & Arnoud Jensen (Antwerp, BE) - Feeding the Citizens in the medieval Low Countries: the land and the market
- Hans Vandermaelen (Ghent, BE) - The past, present and future of urban land and food
10h30 Short break
10h45 Keynote Session: Alternative Food Systems of Medieval Cities
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- Matthieu Arnoux (Paris, FR) - Country and city barns. The Paris grain supply network (12th - 13th centuries)
- Bruce Campbell (Belfast, UK) - Food and Fuel from Overseas: late medieval England and Ireland
12h00 Lunch
13h00 Session: Food Supplies of Urban Families and Institutions
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- Antoni Furio (Valencia, ES) - The city’s larder. Irrigated space, urban landownership and food provisioning from the immediate outside of the city walls of Valencia in the late Middle Ages
- Niklaus Bartlome (Bern, CH) - Providing an Apéro after a volcanic outburst: Impacts of volcanic eruptions on 17th century Switzerland
- Kathleen Pribyl (Antwerp, BE) - Towards an understanding of food provisioning strategies of urban households in late medieval Norwich
14h30 Short break
14h45 Session: Food Producing Town Dwellers
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- Caroline Goodson (Cambridge, UK) - Urban Gardens in Early Medieval Italy: subsistence and prestige
- Annika Björklund (Stockholm, SE) - Urban land ownership in medieval and early modern Swedish towns
- Jan Fongers (Wageningen, NL) - Urban agriculture in the Netherlands during the long sixteenth century (1500-1650)
16h15 Visit of the exhibition "Gentse Gronden"
Practical information to follow, led by Esther Beeckaert (Ghent, BE)
Friday 12 April
9h00 Session: Urban Strategies towards Farmland
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- Paolo Nanni (Florence, IT) - The Direct Supply of Wheat in Florence at the Beginning of the 15th Century. Investigations on the Florentine “Catasto” of 1427
- Bram Hilkens (Rotterdam, NL) - Urban capital, rural development, and land inequality in early modern Holland
- Giulio Ongaro (Milan, IT) - Farmland in a proto-industrial area: the Venetian Mainland dominion (mid-XVI – XIX century)
- Matteo Di Tullio (Pavia, IT) - Feeding the poor, getting richer: the landownership strategies of some charitable institutions of Milan during the early modern period
11h00 Short break
11h15 Session: Organizing the Urban Hinterland
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- Tomas Klir (Prague, CZ) - The organisation of food supply in the late Middle Ages. The case of the imperial city of Cheb (Central Europe)
- Maroesjka Verhagen (Amsterdam, NL) - According to the Seasons. Everyday Functioning of Amsterdam’s Fruit Provision from Its Hinterlands (c. 1600-1800)
- Paolo Tedeschi and Andrea M. Locatelli (Milan, IT) - Supplying with Fresh Fruits and Vegetables the Citizens’ Tables: the suburban orchards and vegetables gardens in the main Lombard towns during the 19th century
12h30 Lunch
13h45 Session: Contested Rights to Farmland
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- Beatrice Moring (Helsinki, FI) - Land and urban-rural connections in the Nordic past
- Henry French (Exeter, UK) - Citizenship, Common Rights and Urban Agriculturein England and Wales, 1500-1850
- Joachim Popek (Rzeszow, PL) - Eastern European Urban Commons: a Subject ofMassive Social Tensions
- Rachele Scuro (Venice, IT) - Bread, rice, and water: The role of urban land and water-ownership in victualling and agriculture in the early modern Venetian State
15h45 Short break
16h00 Concluding Roundtable: Urban Land and Urban Food, from Past to Present
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- JC Niala (Oxford, UK) - Urban Agriculture in Nairobi: Dairy Farming as a Window into Historical Land Exclusion and Contemporary Food Provisioning
- Yves Segers (Leuven, BE) - Allotments and community gardens. The importance of alternative food networks in Belgium since the late 19th century
- Michiel Dehaene (Ghent, BE) - Public Investment in Localized Food Production: imagining collective infrastructure for the food enabling city
17h00 Drinks
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Banquet Vows of the Peacock, c. 15th C., Anonymous
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Peasant family at the table, c.1882, Jozef Israels
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Le Goût du jour - Restaurant du Boeuf à la Mode, c.19th C., Paris
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Modern dining, unknown author