Diet in medieval Denmark: a regional and temporal comparison

Isotopic examination of links between diet, social differentiation, and DISH at the post‐medieval Carmelite Friary of Aalst, Belgium

“…In other populations, a marine contribution to the diet is less clear, although possibly obscured by dietary breadth and, in some cases, the consumption of C 4 foods (Richards et al, 2006;Roberts et al, 2012). Like the isotope values from London and York, the results from Aalst are also remarkably similar to data from late medieval sites, in Belgium (Polet and Katzenberg, 2003) and other countries surrounding the southern North Sea, i.e., England (M€ uldner andRichards, 2005, 2007) and Denmark (Yoder, 2010(Yoder, , 2012, suggesting long-term continuity, at least in urban consumption patterns. The suggestion that fish consumption in post-Reformation England significantly declined over time (Spencer, 2004;Thirsk, 2007) is therefore not fully supported by the available evidence.…”

Let them eat cake? Status-based differences in diet in medieval Denmark

“…With the changes in the restrictions on the monastic diet with time it is expected that the diet of monks will demonstrate a shift from being similar to the peasant diet in the early period to one increasingly similar to the elite diet in the middle and late periods. Although historical documents suggest a change to higher quality food through time for the peasants, previous research on the peasant sample at Øm Kloster did not find a significant temporal shift in diet (Yoder, 2010), possible explanation for the lack of dietary change will be explored later in this paper. The diet of elites is not anticipated to change significantly through time as the historical documentation suggests that they had access to abundant higher quality foods in every period.…”

“…All of the samples included in this study are from adult individuals. Previous stable isotopic analysis undertaken on the skeletal remains of the peasant population interred at Øm Kloster suggest a diet primarily composed of C 3 plants and terrestrial animal proteins, and perhaps the consumption of some freshwater fish species (Yoder, 2006(Yoder, , 2010. There was no significant sex or temporal differences found in the diet of the peasant population at Øm (Yoder, 2006).…”

“…Much of the focus of the previous research was a comparison of the peasants interred at three sites in medieval Denmark: Øm Kloster, a cemetery from the mid-sized administrative city of Viborg, and a sample from Ribe, then the largest city in Denmark. Site based differences in diet were found and suggested that individuals at the large urban site of Ribe had a diet richer in terrestrial and marine proteins than those from the other two sites (Yoder, 2010).…”

Integrating isotopes and documentary evidence: dietary patterns in a late medieval and early modern mining community, Sweden

“…Müldner 2005;Bell et al 2009;Müldner et al 2009;Lamb et al 2012), Scandinavia (e.g. Kjellström et al 2009;Yoder 2010), the Iberian Peninsula (e.g. Salazar-Garcia et al 2014;Alexander et al 2015;Jiménez-Brobeil et al 2016) and Southern (e.g.…”