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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
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Christian ideology and the image of a holy land: the place of Jerusalem pilgrimage in the various Christianities [PDF]

, 2013
The great majority of the world's holy cities and sacred shrines attract pilgrims from culturally circumscribed catchment areas, and thus host pilgrims united by strong degrees of cultural homogeneity.
Bowman, Glenn W.
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Aspects of the Rapid Development of Christian Religious Travel in the 4th Century A.D. [PDF]

, 2020
'People travelled for numerous reasons,' so J.W. Drijvers submits at the beginning of his piece on travel and pilgrimage literature. Be it ‘commerce, government affairs, religion, education, military business or migration,’ people ‘made use of the ...
Van der Molen, Jan M.
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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
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The history of the Gornensky Convent written by hieromonk Isaiah (Babinin) in 1950

Христианство на Ближнем Востоке, 2020
This publication includes a little-known source on the history of the Russian Ecclesiastical Mission in Jerusalem and the Gornensky Convent in Ein-Karem.
Evgenii V. Palamarenko
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Golden weapons and golden fetters: From the gold standard to the new geopolitics

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper explores the historical relationship between monetary regimes, security concerns, and geopolitical tensions, particularly focusing on the role of gold. Throughout history, monetary systems have been deeply intertwined with international state systems and security provisions.
Harold James
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Gender inequality in urban British Africa: Evidence from Anglican marriage registers

The 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
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“Mansurov project” of the Russian Palestine (based on materials from a trip in 1857 to Holy Places)

Вестник Тамбовского университета. Серия: Гуманитарные науки, 2019
We consider the activity of B.P. Mansurov in organizing Russian pilgrimage to the Holy Land. We describe the preparation, course and results of B.P. Mansurov’s trip to the Orthodox East (1857) that largely predetermined the nature of the Russian presence
A. N. Allenov
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Synagogue paintings as indicating a!developing conception of national redemption [PDF]

, 2019
. Orgad Zvi, Synagogue paintings as indicating a developing conception of national redemption. “Images” vol. XXV, no. 34. Poznań 2019. Adam Mickiewicz University Press. Pp. 15–27. ISSN 1731-450X. DOI 10.14746/i.2019.34.01.
Orgad, Zvi
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The Acts of Eadburg: drypoint additions to Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Selden Supra 30

Early Medieval Europe, EarlyView.
In 1913, two drypoint additions were identified in Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Selden Supra 30 (SS30), an eighth‐century Southumbrian copy of the Acts of the Apostles. It was suggested that these additions, cut into the membrane of p. 47, were abbreviations of the Old English female name, Eadburg. Just over a century later, many more drypoint markings
Jessica Hendy‐Hodgkinson
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