Birds eaten in monastic houses in England in the Middle Ages (1066–1540): the archaeological evidence

• Autores: Dale Serjeantson
• Localización: Reconstructing Past Monastic Life: Volume 2: Diet, Landscape and Monastic Space: New Trends from Archaeological, Bioanthropological and Documentary Perspectives / coord. por Lluís Lloveras Roca, Carme Rissech, Jordi Nadal Lorenzo, Philip Banks, 2025, ISBN 9798888571750, págs. 3-14
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Historical and archaeological research into food consumed in monasteries in England has shown that both domestic and wild birds were eaten. Their contribution to the total diet in monasteries was small but important. At Westminster Abbey in the late 15th century birds were calculated to have made up only 1.5% of meat by weight, the bulk of which was domestic chickens (Harvey 1993, table II.3). The percentage of bird bones in archaeological material is normally small compared with mammals and fish (e.g. Ayres et al. 2003; Albarella et al. 2009; Strid 2010; Allison 2015).