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

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
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

A 120-y time series of genomes reveals the consequences of closed breeding in German Shepherd Dogs. [PDF]

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
Scarsbrook L, Spatola GJ, Dreger DL, Feuerborn TR, Buckley RM, Carmagnini A, Fabre AC, Harris AC, Hertwig ST, Leeb T, Mousseau TA, Tabbada K, Thalmann O, Larson G, Frantz LAF, Ostrander EA.   +15 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Wealth inequality and epidemics in the Republic of Venice (1400–1800)

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This article analyses wealth inequality in the Republic of Venice during 1400–1800. The availability of a large database of homogeneous inequality measurements allows us to produce the most in‐depth study of the factors affecting inequality at the local level available thus far for any preindustrial society.
Guido Alfani, Matteo Di Tullio, Mattia Fochesato   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

From Black Death to COVID-19: Lessons Learned from the Past Pandemics. [PDF]

Infez Med
Radparvar S.
europepmc   +1 more source

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

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
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

13-ти Международен конгрес по тракология „Древна Тракия: мит и реалност“, 3-7 септември 2017 г. Казанлък, България

Българско е-Списание за Археология, 2017
Julia Tzvetkova, Totko Stoyanov, Dilyana Boteva   +2 more
doaj  

Advancing Archaeobotanical Methods: Morphometry, Bayesian Analysis and AMS Dating of Rose Prickles from Monteagudo Almunia, Spain (12th Century-Present). [PDF]

Plants (Basel)
Rivera D, Navarro J, Camarero I, Valera J, Rivera-Obón DJ, Obón C.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Felons’ chattels and English living standards in the later fourteenth and fifteenth centuries

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
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, Ben Jervis, Alice Forward, Tomasz Gromelski, Matthew Tompkins   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Medical Error of Saints Cosmas and Damian: Reflections on Fallibility and Medical Education From a Medieval Miracle. [PDF]

J Korean Med Sci
Kim M, Jeon JH.
europepmc   +1 more source

The slow emergence of the rational investor: Grain markets and grain storage of rural estates in western Germany, eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract We develop new datasets of monthly grain prices in 14 urban markets and of the storage and marketing of grain by 5 rural estates located in western Germany between the late seventeenth century and c. 1860. We explore whether observed patterns of monthly prices, sales, and storage of grain are consistent with the rational competitive storage ...
Matthias Hartermann, Ulrich Pfister, Friederike Scholten‐Buschhoff   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source