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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

Hunting for Hollanders: The community responsibility system, trade sanctions, and public debt in the late‐medieval Low Countries

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract To persuade creditors to lend, cities in the Low Countries relied on a community responsibility system that made all citizens personally liable for public debt. This exposed itinerant citizens to significant risks: their merchandise could be confiscated by creditors, and they could even be imprisoned for debt.
Jaco Zuijderduijn
wiley   +1 more source

The many prices of war and occupation: Black markets and the cost‐of‐living index in France, 1938–1949

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract When studying French prices between 1938 and 1949, economists and historians face a paradox: whilst a vast black market shaped daily life, official indices recorded only state‐controlled prices. This article addresses the issue by introducing a new consumer price index that incorporates both official and black market prices.
Patrice Baubeau, Matéo Teixeira
wiley   +1 more source

The bumblebees of the Italian western Alps

open access: yes, 2010
The western Alps extend from Bocchetta di Altare to the Splügenpass. They belong to France and Switzerland on the external side and to Italy on the internal one. The boundary runs mostly on the watershed between the Po basin and the Rhone and Rhine basins, except for the upper Ticino valley that belongs to Switzerland.
PORPORATO, Marco   +4 more
openaire   +1 more source

The former distribution of White‐tailed Eagles in Iberia, the Mediterranean and the Middle East: a case study of the importance of understanding historical distribution in informing current conservation and restoration interventions

open access: yesIbis, EarlyView.
The importance of considering historical data in developing conservation and restoration measures for individual species and for wider ecological restoration has been pointed out by recent reviews but often remains neglected in practice. This paper provides a case study illustrating the issue through a review of the former breeding distribution of the ...
Duncan J. Halley
wiley   +1 more source

A NEW CEPHALOPOD FROM THE EARLY SILURIAN OF THE CARNIC ALPS (ITALIAN SIDE)

open access: yesRivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia, 2022
A new Early Silurian cephalopod from the Italian side of the Carnic Alps is reported on the basis either of newly collected material or museum specimens. The genus Serpaglioceras gen. nov. and the species S. forojuliense sp. nov. are described.
MAURIZIO GNOLI, PAOLO SERVENTI
doaj  

Ancestry and kinship in a Late Antiquity-Early Middle Ages cemetery in the Eastern Italian Alps. [PDF]

open access: yesiScience, 2023
Coia V   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Taxonomic and functional patterns of arthropod succession after glacier retreat in the Dolomite Alps

open access: yesInsect Conservation and Diversity, EarlyView.
Arthropod succession after glacier retreat varied among species and forelands in the Dolomites Alps, with community composition shaped by glacier identity, time since deglaciation and local environmental conditions. Functional composition shifted from small, highly dispersive pioneer species to larger, less dispersive taxa, reflecting increasing ...
Ivan Petri   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

Robotic monitoring of Alpine screes: a dataset from the EU Natura2000 habitat 8110 in the Italian Alps. [PDF]

open access: yesSci Data, 2023
Angelini F   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Soil and plant data of a pasture of the Italian Alps (Andossi, SO)

open access: yes, 2019
A detailed assessment of an Alpine pasture functioning based on quantitative and analytical measurements of soil chemical and physical parameters, biomass and productive measurements, floristic composition and "functional summary" by the evaluation of ...
Ferré, Chiara   +2 more
core   +1 more source

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