From the forest to the table: From the forest to the table

Andreia Fontenete Louro (ULisboa)

doi:10.5935/2177-6644.20240028

Auteurs-es

Andreia Fontenete Louro (ULisboa) Centre for History of the University of Lisbon https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1884-8347 ##orcid.unauthenticated##

DOI :

https://doi.org/10.5935/2177-6644.20240028

Résumé

The wild boar (Sus scrofa) is a mammal that has long existed in Portugal. The main sources to study it are those related to its hunting or consumption. Hunting doesn’t always imply consumption, and the opposite is also true. But in Early Modern Age, as today, it was the predominant way of obtaining wild boar for consumption. This article focuses on understanding the methods and processes surrounding the hunting and consumption of this swine in royal and aristocratic contexts.

Keywords: Wild Boar. Hunting. Food Consumption. Portugal. Early Modern Age.

Biographie de l'auteur-e

Andreia Fontenete Louro (ULisboa), Centre for History of the University of Lisbon

Is a research assistant at the Centre for History of the University of Lisbon (CH-ULisboa). She graduated in History (2016) and holds a Master degree in Discoveries and Modern History (2019), both from the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences of NOVA University. Her master’s dissertation is titled “An Aristocratic Wedding in 1537: Festivals, Display and Power in Vila Viçosa” and explores how material culture could serve the purpose of representing and show off the personal power of a high status nobleman and the institutional power of a great aristocratic House.

In January 2022 she was granted a Studentships Research for Doctorate in History from the Fondation for Science and Technology (ref. 2021.04831.BD). Her project is called "«A wild, astute, carnivorous and very harmful animal»: the relationship between the cultural imaginary of the wolf and the conservation of the species (1220-1988)" and is being developed at the School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon.

From the forest to the table