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Meat is a main staple in medievaldiets and shortage of meat mightchallenge the social peace, particularly inan urban context. Institutions and politicshad a strong infl uence on the evolutionof the meat trade. The strategies of royaloffi cials and municipal governments wereessential to understanding the problemsof meat supply and how they were solved.This article analyses the structures ofthe meat market in two European cities:Barcelona and Rouen. Two cities withthe same number of inhabitants and thesame economic structures, but which aregeographically far apart, and had differentinstitutional structures. The different politicsapplied to the meat business werethe cause of the divergent evolution of thebutcher＊s trade in these two cities. La carne es un producto esencialen la alimentaci車n medieval y su escasezgenerar芍 problemas sociales, especialmenteen el mundo urbano; por tanto,un elemento fundamental de la pol赤ticamunicipal ser芍 vigilar el correcto abastecimientode este producto. En este art赤culose analizar芍 la estructuraci車n del mercadode la carne en dos ciudades europeasque comparten dimensiones demogr芍fi casy estructuras econ車micas, pero que est芍nmuy alejadas desde el punto de vista geogr芍fico e institucional. A trav谷s del an芍lisisdel mercado de la carne en Barcelona yen Ru芍n se intentar芍 ver c車mo afrontan elproblema del abastecimiento dos ciudadescon marcos institucionales y estrategiaspol赤ticas muy diferentes.
