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"Two casks in his house always, a cask of milk and a cask of ale”: Foodstuffs as currency in pre-monetary capitalist economic systems

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"Two casks in his house always, a cask of milk and a cask of ale”: Foodstuffs as currency in pre-monetary capitalist economic systems. / Karl, Raimund.
Was tranken die frühen Kelten? Bedeutungen und Funktionen mediterraner Importe im früheisenzeitlichen Mitteleuropa. Internationale Konferenz Kloster Weltenburg 28.04.-01.05.2017.: What did the early Celts drink? Meaning and Function of Mediterranean Imports into Early Iron Age Central Europe.. ed. / Philipp W. Stockhammer; Janine Fries-Knoblach. Sidestone Press, 2019. p. 321-336.

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Karl, R 2019, "Two casks in his house always, a cask of milk and a cask of ale”: Foodstuffs as currency in pre-monetary capitalist economic systems. in PW Stockhammer & J Fries-Knoblach (eds), Was tranken die frühen Kelten? Bedeutungen und Funktionen mediterraner Importe im früheisenzeitlichen Mitteleuropa. Internationale Konferenz Kloster Weltenburg 28.04.-01.05.2017.: What did the early Celts drink? Meaning and Function of Mediterranean Imports into Early Iron Age Central Europe.. Sidestone Press, pp. 321-336.

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Karl, R. (2019). "Two casks in his house always, a cask of milk and a cask of ale”: Foodstuffs as currency in pre-monetary capitalist economic systems. In P. W. Stockhammer, & J. Fries-Knoblach (Eds.), Was tranken die frühen Kelten? Bedeutungen und Funktionen mediterraner Importe im früheisenzeitlichen Mitteleuropa. Internationale Konferenz Kloster Weltenburg 28.04.-01.05.2017.: What did the early Celts drink? Meaning and Function of Mediterranean Imports into Early Iron Age Central Europe. (pp. 321-336). Sidestone Press.

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Karl R. 2019. "Two casks in his house always, a cask of milk and a cask of ale”: Foodstuffs as currency in pre-monetary capitalist economic systems. Stockhammer PW, Fries-Knoblach J, editors. In Was tranken die frühen Kelten? Bedeutungen und Funktionen mediterraner Importe im früheisenzeitlichen Mitteleuropa. Internationale Konferenz Kloster Weltenburg 28.04.-01.05.2017.: What did the early Celts drink? Meaning and Function of Mediterranean Imports into Early Iron Age Central Europe.. Sidestone Press. pp. 321-336.

MLA

Karl, Raimund ""Two casks in his house always, a cask of milk and a cask of ale”: Foodstuffs as currency in pre-monetary capitalist economic systems". and Stockhammer, Philipp W. Fries-Knoblach, Janine (editors). Was tranken die frühen Kelten? Bedeutungen und Funktionen mediterraner Importe im früheisenzeitlichen Mitteleuropa. Internationale Konferenz Kloster Weltenburg 28.04.-01.05.2017.: What did the early Celts drink? Meaning and Function of Mediterranean Imports into Early Iron Age Central Europe.. Chapter 22, Sidestone Press. 2019, 321-336.

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Karl R. "Two casks in his house always, a cask of milk and a cask of ale”: Foodstuffs as currency in pre-monetary capitalist economic systems. In Stockhammer PW, Fries-Knoblach J, editors, Was tranken die frühen Kelten? Bedeutungen und Funktionen mediterraner Importe im früheisenzeitlichen Mitteleuropa. Internationale Konferenz Kloster Weltenburg 28.04.-01.05.2017.: What did the early Celts drink? Meaning and Function of Mediterranean Imports into Early Iron Age Central Europe.. Sidestone Press. 2019. p. 321-336

Author

Karl, Raimund. / "Two casks in his house always, a cask of milk and a cask of ale” : Foodstuffs as currency in pre-monetary capitalist economic systems. Was tranken die frühen Kelten? Bedeutungen und Funktionen mediterraner Importe im früheisenzeitlichen Mitteleuropa. Internationale Konferenz Kloster Weltenburg 28.04.-01.05.2017.: What did the early Celts drink? Meaning and Function of Mediterranean Imports into Early Iron Age Central Europe.. editor / Philipp W. Stockhammer ; Janine Fries-Knoblach. Sidestone Press, 2019. pp. 321-336

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PY - 2019/11/12

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N2 - Early Medieval Irish literature contains detailed information about food rents in premonetary economic systems based on clientage relations. Clients had to pay their patrons for a loan (a “fore-payment”) of a certain value, an exactly defined annual rent consisting of agricultural resources and prepared foodstuffs. Itinerant patrons consumed at least parts of this rental income, more or less immediately when it was delivered, at “feasts”, customary events characterised by a particular feasting culture. The texts also tell us about rules for the sustenance of the sick and the injured, who were entitled to a legally defined “healthy” diet graduated by social rank. In all of these texts, however, agricultural resources and foodstuffs served as a means of payment in a defined, pre-monetary system of established exchange value relations. This contribution examines these texts and develops a general model of foodstuffs as an established exchange value system and their consumption in pre-monetary societies.

AB - Early Medieval Irish literature contains detailed information about food rents in premonetary economic systems based on clientage relations. Clients had to pay their patrons for a loan (a “fore-payment”) of a certain value, an exactly defined annual rent consisting of agricultural resources and prepared foodstuffs. Itinerant patrons consumed at least parts of this rental income, more or less immediately when it was delivered, at “feasts”, customary events characterised by a particular feasting culture. The texts also tell us about rules for the sustenance of the sick and the injured, who were entitled to a legally defined “healthy” diet graduated by social rank. In all of these texts, however, agricultural resources and foodstuffs served as a means of payment in a defined, pre-monetary system of established exchange value relations. This contribution examines these texts and develops a general model of foodstuffs as an established exchange value system and their consumption in pre-monetary societies.

KW - Celtic Studies

KW - ARCHAEOLOGY

KW - Alcohol Drinking

KW - Alcohol Drinking: economics

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