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Paper short abstract

The study addresses the ways in which a project in Pedralbes Monastery (Barcelona) represented and reproduced the medieval horticultural landscape and it discusses how environmental history was integrated into its development and realization.

Paper long abstract

In 2014, the Pedralbes Museum of Barcelona which administrates the Pedralbes Monastery, undertook an archaeological and historical project which consisted in recovering the medieval period (1300-1492) of the community's vegetable garden of the monastery, which existed from the 14th century to the mid-20th century. The study addresses the ways in which the project represented and reproduced the medieval horticultural landscape and it discusses how environmental history was integrated into its development and realization. In particular, this study will: a) interrogate the representation of the horticultural and animal landscape prior to 1492; b) examine how the museum’s dissemination activity of the project established connections between medieval agriculture and contemporary ecological agriculture; c) interrogates how the project integrates the objectives of environmental history with those of museography and the social services of the city.