Production, supply, and distribution

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ID20085501
AuthorsWendy Davies (University of Oxford, corresponding author)
Year2024
Pages153-177
Publication date2024-12-19
Open AccessNo
TypeCHAPTER
VenueGardens in Northern Iberia in the Early Middle Ages (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherOxford University PressOxford (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1093/9780191997983.003.0007
OpenAlexW4404591918
ISBN9780191997983
LanguageEN
Citations received9

This chapter explores why monasteries were so interested in acquiring gardens in the tenth century. Likely reasons were to increase the regular supply of garden fruit, legumes, and medicinal herbs for expanding monastic communities. Regular supply of textile fibres for those communities is likely too. Some rural monasteries bought gardens in towns and they had shops there; a network of roads was available and there was plentiful provision of draught animals, the necessary elements of a distribution system. It looks as if some textiles—and plant dyes—were provided for urban communities. Garden plots may well have been acquired in order to focus on textile and dye plants for cloth production for distribution; monastic enterprise took a new direction, with a corresponding shift in garden product

Mathematical analysis · Byzantine Studies and History · Eurasian Exchange Networks · Mathematics · Water management and technologies

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