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FLA-MEAL reconstructs diets in medieval Flanders using bioarchaeological methods, focusing on social inequalities in food access from the 11th to 15th centuries. By analyzing stable isotopes in human remains, the project aims to reveal how diet varied across different social groups and urban-rural settings.
Medieval Flanders was one of Europe’s most densely urbanised regions, where prosperity, crisis and recovery unfolded with stark social contrasts.
Between the eleventh and fifteenth centuries, urban growth in Bruges, Ghent and Ypres coincided with structural inequality in wealth, housing and above all food access.
Climatic shifts, demographic pressures and repeated shocks, from famine to plague, shaped diets unevenly across social groups.
While elites are well represented in written records, the…
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