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The Ecclesiastical Common Law: A Quarter-century Retrospective

open access: yes, 2011
This article reviews developments in ecclesiastical case law (interpreted widely) over the 25 years since the Ecclesiastical Law Journal was founded, focusing on four areas, in each of which, in the author's view, there have been significant developments:
Charles George
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Gender inequality in urban British Africa: Evidence from Anglican marriage registers

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract We examine the colonial origins and evolution of gender inequality in mission schooling and formal labour force participation across six cities in British colonial Africa, using marriage register data for some 30,000 Anglican brides and grooms well‐positioned to benefit from colonial educational and employment opportunities.
Felix Meier zu Selhausen, Jacob Weisdorf
wiley   +1 more source

Допринос Сергија В. Троицког проучавању Законоправила Светог Саве

open access: yesGodišnjak, 2023
Sergey V. Troitsky was a theologian, historian, and an excellent jurist. He spent a significant portion of his life studying Saint Sava’s Zakonopravilo.
Nenad Tupeša
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Declining female participation: Mechanisms at play in the Viennese private annuity market, c. 1360–1450

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract During the high and late Middle Ages, the European economy witnessed the emergence and substantial growth of capital markets, a phenomenon connected to urbanization and pestilence, both of which brought profound changes to the social, legal, and economic positions of women.
Anna Molnár
wiley   +1 more source

Las facultades para la confesión en el Código de Juan Pablo II

open access: yesThe Person and the Challenges, 2012
According to the law of the Church, contained mainly in the Code of Canon Law, priests are entitled to certain rights and obligations arising from their Holy Orders. Some of them require also appropriate faculties in addition to the orders. This is
Marek Saj
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Ecclesiastical Heritage as a Human Right

open access: yes, 2021
In several documents, the Church of Sweden has expressed that participation in the Church’s cultural heritage is a common right. According to the Church of Sweden’s cultural heritage goals, “the ecclesiastical cultural heritage belongs to all”.
Lindblad, Henrik,
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Extreme weather and economic crisis in the 1430s in England, and the implications for tenurial change

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract The 1430s were characterized by extreme weather conditions, food and fodder shortages, and high mortalities among animals and humans, although the severity of events and their consequences in England have received limited attention. The economic downturn and the depressed customary land market in this decade marked the beginning of the Great ...
Mark Bailey
wiley   +1 more source

L’επιτροποσ - un exécuteur testamentaire [PDF]

open access: yesZbornik Radova Vizantološkog Instituta, 2014
Our intention is to analyze the legal institution of testamentary executor, which appears in various legal systems in Europe, at the beginning of the Middle Ages.
Matović Tamara
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Snapshots from a Fast‐Moving Train: Religious History 1960–2025

open access: yes
Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
Alexandra Walsham
wiley   +1 more source

Regional and local divergence in welfare provision in England and Wales, 1776–1815

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This article uses the township‐level data on welfare expenditure and provision gathered by parish officers in England and Wales at three points between 1776 and 1815 to illuminate regional and local differences during the period. These data have been linked to geographic information system (GIS) mapping systems, facilitating the mapping of ...
John Broad
wiley   +1 more source

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