Session organized by Christi Ivers and Isidro Rivera and sponsored by the Ibero-Medieval Association of North America (IMANA)
- Location: Kalamazoo, MI (in-person)
- Date: 14-16 May 2026
- Submit abstract on the International Congress on Medieval Studies Confex website by 15 September 2025 (https://wmich.edu/medievalcongress/call)
- Contact: Christi Ivers (ci****@*****as.edu) or Isidro Rivera (ij******@**.edu)
What did people consume in medieval Iberia and the Mediterranean, and with whom? How were consumables grown, fabricated, transported, traded, stored, bought, inventoried, displayed? Understanding consumption and consumables broadly, this in-person session seeks papers from a variety of fields and approaches to promote interdisciplinary dialogue around this topic. Topics may include festivals, foodways, reading practices, economics, written and visual representations of consumption, archival documents, natural resources, and more.
We invite interventions from approaches such as literary, food, or religious studies; manuscript, print, or material culture; trade and commerce; history; art history; ecocriticism. These papers will describe consumption in Iberia and the Mediterranean and examine what consumption reveals about people’s day-to-day lives, values, habits, concerns, needs, and aspirations.
2025 Consumption and Consumables CFP