Bordeaux from Its Vineyards to Its Hinterland: A Regional Capital in the Late Middle Ages

Sandrine Lavaud ()
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Sandrine Lavaud: University Bordeaux Montaigne

Chapter Chapter 3 in The Urban Logistic Network, 2019, pp 53-73 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Bordeaux enjoyed, since its roman origins, a situation of an estuary port and a good ground for the vineyard. The central and last middle age is a very prosperous period thanks to English-Gascon union. Concerning Bordeaux, to control the production, the supplying and the commercialization of wine was a major way to become a regional capital. This domination produced under control spaces. This communication uses the economic indicator of wine sector to understand the centrality of Bordeaux. The wine-growing indicator, a determining maker of the polarization of Bordeaux hinterland? Which similitude with other territories?

Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-27599-0_3

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