"Et hoc facimus propter necessitatem famis..." Possibilitats de les fonts documentals catalanes per a l'estudi de les crisis alimentàries dels segles X-XIII
Pere Benito i Monclús
European studies of famines before the thirteenth century have been based principally on chronicles and especially information from monastic annals. These sources, which are numerous during so-called Carolingian Cultural Renaissance, offer abundant evidence a phenomenon scarcely mentioned in other types including archival sources: frequency gravity crises food supply some regions continental Europe central middle ages, an epoch which, being situated between terrible carolingian period great panademics fourteenth century, has considered “without famines.” The object this article is to shed light limitations medieval catalan chronicle sources for reconstruction food-supply affected counties tenth through centuries illustrate, contrast, multiple opportunities offered by lordly archives. A significant part these
archival connected direct indirect manner difficulties rural urban populations therefore, broad sense, can be consequence these crises.
Acta historica et archaeologica mediaevalia