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A Hidden History of Unhappiness

Critical Quarterly, EarlyView.
Joe Moran
wiley   +1 more source

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

The 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

Cultural innovation can increase and maintain biodiversity: A case study from medieval Europe. [PDF]

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
Spitzig A, Rösch M, Woodbridge J, Bauch M, Guzowski P, Erhart P, Fyfe R, Marinova E, Izdebski A.   +8 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The bread of Toledo: Prices and political economy, 1535–1800

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract We study the market for common white bread in the city of Toledo through a new 266‐year‐long series of bread prices, obtained from the cash purchases and wholesale bread‐for‐wheat contracts of large institutions. Our data are strongly consistent with fragmentary evidence on retail price regulation, as well as with shorter series from other ...
Mauricio Drelichman, David González Agudo   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Saved in translation? Diversity shared in French and Dutch medieval literature. [PDF]

Evol Hum Sci
Kestemont M, Karsdorp F, Camps JB, Sleiderink R, Chao A.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Innovation and the great divergence

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Recent historical national accounting data show that the timing of the Great Divergence hinges on the different trends in north‐west Europe and the Yangzi Delta region of China. Although north‐west Europe only pulled ahead of the Yangzi Delta after 1700, both the positive trend of GDP per capita in north‐west Europe after 1700 and the negative
Stephen Broadberry, Runzhuo Zhai
wiley   +1 more source

Genetic diversity of horses of the Sargarinsko-Alexeevskaya and Irmen cultures of the Ob-Irtysh region of Western Siberia and their genetic proximity to modern horses of indigenous breeds. [PDF]

Vavilovskii Zhurnal Genet Selektsii
Kusliy MА, Yurlova AA, Vorobyeva NV, Proskuryakova AA, Demin MA, Sitnikov SM, Zharonkin VN, Onishchenko SS, Kasparov AK, Tupikin AE, Graphodatsky AS, Molodtseva AS, Tishkin AA.   +12 more
europepmc   +1 more source

A newly discovered Carolingian text: Candidus' Liber testimoniorum veteris testamenti, written for Charlemagne

Early Medieval Europe, EarlyView.
This article presents a newly discovered Latin text: a theological treatise titled Liber testimoniorum veteris testamenti that was written by Alcuin’s friend Candidus (Wizo) at the request of Charlemagne. By discussing selected passages from the Heptateuch, Candidus seeks to demonstrate that Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit, thus the whole Christian ...
Lukas J. Dorfbauer
wiley   +1 more source

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Studia Historica. Historia Medieval, 2018
Secretaría de Redacción HISTORIA MEDIEVAL
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