Felons’ chattels and English living standards in the later fourteenth and fifteenth centuries
The Economic History Review, Volume 79, Issue 3, Page 1024-1051, August 2026.Abstract The later fourteenth and fifteenth centuries have long occupied an intriguing and contested place in discussions of England's long‐run economic development. One key issue around which debate has coalesced is the living standards of the population as a whole and of different groups within it. We contribute to this debate by bringing forward new
Chris Briggs +4 more
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The Economic History Review, Volume 79, Issue 3, Page 871-899, August 2026.Abstract In recent years economic inequality has become a major research topic in economic history. However, much remains to be done to complete our knowledge of long‐term distributive dynamics. This article highlights several promising avenues for future research, focusing on the preindustrial period.
Guido Alfani
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On the virtues of pungency: use and spread of Capsicum peppers in 16th and 17th centuries
Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi. Ciências Humanas, 2013 From the fifteenth century onward occurred on a global scale the spread of farming, marketing and use of many plants. Although historiography has a reasonable volume of published studies on the spices of the East, as well as on the economic impact of ...
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Oxford Journal of Archaeology, Volume 45, Issue 3, Page 369-393, August 2026.Summary This paper investigates the economic and political transformations of the Medieval Eastern Mediterranean (late eleventh to mid‐fourteenth centuries AD) through the lens of material culture and Social Network Analysis (SNA). Using the distribution of seven types of glazed pottery as archaeological indicators, the study examines changing patterns
Katerina Ragkou
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'I Haue Ben Crised and Besy': Illness and Resilience in the Fifteenth-Century Stonor Letters. [PDF]
Mediaev J, 2015 Thorpe D.
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Evidence for the Continued Use of Medieval Medical Prescriptions in the Sixteenth Century: A Fifteenth-Century Remedy Book and its Later Owner. [PDF]
Med Hist, 2016 Connolly M.
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Altichiero in the Fifteenth Century [PDF]
, 2014 Altichiero was the dominant north Italian painter of the later Trecento. In Padua, in the 1370s and early 1380s, he worked for patrons close to Petrarch and his circle and perhaps in direct contact with the poet himself. By the time of the second edition of Vasari’s Vite (1568) the memory of Altichiero’s work had suffered significant occlusion, and ...
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Fifteenth century CE Bolivian maize reveals genetic affinities with ancient Peruvian maize. [PDF]
ElifeChen H +8 more
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Fifteenth century Florentine mural investigated in situ with VNIR Hyperspectral Imaging and NIR Photography supports interpretation as a bloodletting scene. [PDF]
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Were camptodactyly and boutonniere deformity considered pathological in late fifteenth century Italy? Evidence from the sculptures of Francesco di Simone Ferrucci (1437-1493). [PDF]
Rheumatol IntAlbury WR, Weisz GM.
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