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Slave voices and experiences in the later medieval Europe

open access: yesHistory Compass, Volume 21, Issue 10, October 2023., 2023
Abstract Late medieval slavery was profoundly entangled in urban life in particular. Cities all around the Mediterranean coast were implicated in the trade—although this article focuses on the Christian Mediterranean which was bound together by a general reliance on Roman law (alongside local customary laws and the canon law of the Church).
Hannah Skoda
wiley   +1 more source

Seeing credit and property rights from below: The experience of Catalan smallholders in the eighteenth century

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, Volume 76, Issue 3, Page 759-782, August 2023., 2023
Abstract The Catalan case in south‐western Europe offers us the opportunity to take a detailed look at the impact a lowering of the interest rate may have had on the poor of a specific area. It is vital to examine how property rights operated in specific contexts, given the close relationship between land and credit markets.
Rosa Congost   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Exploring modern bank penetration: Evidence from early twentieth‐century Netherlands

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, Volume 76, Issue 3, Page 892-916, August 2023., 2023
Abstract We analyse the estate composition of the richest 30 per cent of people who died in the Netherlands in 1921 to find that households used a broad range of institutions to meet their financial demands. Goods and services were either paid in cash or settled periodically with suppliers.
Oscar Gelderblom   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Un document juridique mamelouk. Se porter garant de la comparution d’un tiers.

open access: yes, 2013
International audienceThis paper will present, edit and analyze a Mamluk legal instrument bearing on the guarantee of a third party’s appearance in court. This act, EG 601, was recorded before the Hanafi court of Faiyum in the year 739/1339.
Daaïf, Lahcen
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Commerce et justice : le tribunal de la conservation des foires et les marchands à Lyon (1655-1780)

open access: yes, 2021
The interest for commercial courts of Ancien Régime France grows among historians, but little is known about their activity and ordinary functioning. Through the study of Lyon’s court of conservation des foires between the 17th and 18th centuries, the ...
Saint-Cast, Benoit
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“THE NORMAL EXCEPTION”: EDOARDO GRENDI, MICROANALYSIS, AND GENERALIZATIONS*

open access: yesHistory and Theory, Volume 65, Issue 2, Page 237-256, June 2026.
ABSTRACT “The normal exception” has long been a slogan of microhistory. This oxymoronic phrase is the iconic rendering of an incidental sentence that appeared in a 1977 article by Edoardo Grendi. His article, titled “Micro‐analisi e storia sociale” (Microanalysis and Social History), is cited more often than it is read.
FRANCESCA TRIVELLATO
wiley   +1 more source

The cost of the consumer revolution: Prices, material living standards, and real inequality in Amsterdam (1630‒1805)

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, Volume 79, Issue 2, Page 684-716, May 2026.
Abstract This article measures the cost of the early modern consumer revolution through a quantitative analysis of product and process innovations in Amsterdam and examines their variegated social impact in two distinct datasets of probate inventories.
Bas Spliet, Anne E. C. McCants
wiley   +1 more source

Strategic materials and state capacity in Renaissance Italy: The economic policies of ‘Roman saltpetre’ procurement

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, Volume 79, Issue 2, Page 757-780, May 2026.
Abstract Demonstrating the existence of a soaring demand for strategic materials in fifteenth‐century Rome, the article pioneers research in the late medieval trade in saltpetre, the irreplaceable, rare component of gunpowder, indispensable for waging war following the diffusion of artillery technology.
Fabrizio Antonio Ansani
wiley   +1 more source

Comment faire l’histoire de l’acteur au Moyen Âge ? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
L’article entend poser les fondements d’une histoire des pratiques théâtrales affranchie des cadres de l’histoire littéraire et déliée des limites des problématiques textuelles, où l’acteur est au centre de l’attention.
Bouhaïk-Gironès, Marie
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The Venetian Vernacular Lexicon in Eleventh‐ and Twelfth‐Century Latin Documents: Insights from the Codice Diplomatico Veneziano

open access: yesTransactions of the Philological Society, Volume 124, Issue 1, Page 168-199, March 2026.
Abstract This study investigates the lexicographical potential of Medieval Latin documentation from the Venetian area of the Italo‐Romance domain, highlighting the need for a systematic approach to bridge Latin and vernacular linguistic developments. The project MEDITA – Medieval Latin Documentation and Digital Italo‐Romance Lexicography.
Jacopo Gesiot
wiley   +1 more source

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