Il paesaggio certosino tra "desertum", eremo e orti monastici

Food plays a role in the monks’ lives linked to material subsistence and, like the rest of daily life, is established according to very precise rules. The spaces in the monastery where the Carthusians have their meals are the cell, which accommodates them throughout the day, and the refectory for festivities. The paper analyses the spaces where food is consumed, but also where it is produced: from the garden in the cell for the monk’s personal use to the monastic gardens, up to the territorial scale with the study of agricultural properties and the granges of the Carthusian monastery of Casotto in Piedmont.