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Geoadria, 2019 This paper analyses the manuscript map of central and parts of northern Dalmatia by an unknown author in the first decade of the 16th century. It is the oldest preserved detailed depiction of a Croatian region and is currently housed in the State ...
Kristijan Juran +2 more
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Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Volume 48, Issue 3, Page 233-257, September 2025.Abstract In mid‐eighteenth‐century Europe, anonymous authors produced parodic satires masquerading as earnest exemplars of the chronicle form. Couched in an antiquated, quasi‐biblical register, these mock chronicles drew flimsily fictional portraits of modern life.
Zachary Garber
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The Tragic End of Bona Sforza and Roxelana
Folia Historica Cracoviensia, 2020 This is an attempt to compare events related to the tragic end of the life of Queen Bona Sforza d’Aragona and Hürrem Sultan (also known as Roxelana). The main portion of the story is preceded by a section relating Bona’s journey from Poland to Italy and ...
Marco Jačov
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Wealth, Inheritance, and Concentration: Italy and Its Regions From the Unification to the Great War
Review of Income and Wealth, Volume 71, Issue 3, August 2025.ABSTRACT In the economic history of post‐unification Italy, the question of wealth has been largely neglected. We fill this gap with a new set of estimates of wealth concentration from 1863 to 1914, using national inheritance tax tabulations, combined with existing micro‐data for the cities of Milan and Naples. While the level of our estimates for this
Giacomo Gabbuti, Salvatore Morelli
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Symposium on The Cambridge History of Nationhood and Nationalism
Nations and Nationalism, Volume 31, Issue 3, Page 535-542, July 2025.ABSTRACT This symposium consists of two critical reviews of The Cambridge History of Nationhood and Nationalism by Eric Storm and John Breuilly, followed by a response to those critiques by the editors of the two volumes.
John Breuilly +4 more
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Women Suppliers to Medieval Courts: Making Visible Ducal and Royal Power
Gender &History, Volume 37, Issue 1, Page 33-49, March 2025.Abstract This article analyses under‐studied women suppliers to medieval courts, with a focus on Burgundian and French courts of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Through its archival research, it identifies over a hundred women involved in creating, supplying and repairing objects.
Katherine A. Wilson
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Renaissance Studies, Volume 39, Issue 1, Page 104-122, February 2025.Abstract In the Fronde's aftermath, the treason and flight of the ‘Grand’ Prince of Condé Louis II de Bourbon raised pointed questions about belonging and community in Louis XIV's France, and news of his wife's 1656 pregnancy while in exile in Flanders further complicated those issues.
Jim Coons
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History's Masters The Effect of European Monarchs on State Performance
Econometrica, Volume 93, Issue 1, Page 95-128, January 2025.We create a novel reign‐level data set for European monarchs, covering all major European states between the 10th and 18th centuries. We first document a strong positive relationship between rulers' cognitive ability and state performance. To address endogeneity issues, we exploit the facts that (i) rulers were appointed according to hereditary ...
Sebastian Ottinger, Nico Voigtländer
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Historical Self‐Governance and Norms of Cooperation
Econometrica, Volume 92, Issue 5, Page 1473-1502, September 2024.Does self‐governance, a hallmark of democratic societies, foster norms of generalized cooperation? Does this effect persist, and if so, why? I investigate these questions using a natural experiment in Switzerland. In the Middle Ages, the absence of an heir resulted in the extinction of a prominent noble dynasty.
Devesh Rustagi
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Inbreedin in the Habsburg dynasty
, 2016 Bakalářská práce se zabývá inbreedingem v dynastii Habsburků. Od jednotlivých členů a rozdělení rodu popisuje sňatkovou politiku a její výsledné problémy.
Krystyníková, Tereza
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