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The commercialization of labour markets: Evidence from wage inequality in the Middle Ages

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper moves beyond the focus on ‘average’ wage trends in pre‐industrial economies by examining the broad diversity of pay rates and forms of remuneration across occupations and regions in medieval England. We find that whilst some workers enjoyed substantial growth in wage rates after the Black Death, there was a large group who ...
Jordan Claridge, Vincent Delabastita, Spike Gibbs   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Declining female participation: Mechanisms at play in the Viennese private annuity market, c. 1360–1450

The 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

Reseñas

Anales de la Universidad de Alicante. Historia Medieval, 2014
Anales de la UA Historia Medieval
doaj   +1 more source

Archeo-Inspiration from the Cultural History of Glass: Historic Accounts, Anecdotes and Hard Facts as Challenges to Modern Material Science. [PDF]

Adv Mater
von Contzen E, von Ditfurth J, Stroth F, Rapp BE.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Extreme weather and economic crisis in the 1430s in England, and the implications for tenurial change

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract The 1430s were characterized by extreme weather conditions, food and fodder shortages, and high mortalities among animals and humans, although the severity of events and their consequences in England have received limited attention. The economic downturn and the depressed customary land market in this decade marked the beginning of the Great ...
Mark Bailey
wiley   +1 more source

Contents

Studia Historica. Historia Medieval, 2019
Secretaría de Redacción HISTORIA MEDIEVAL
doaj   +2 more sources

More continuity than change following the Black Death epidemic in medieval Cambridge. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Robb J, Dittmar JM, Inskip SA, Rose AK, Mitchell PD, O'Connell TC, Price M, Cessford C.   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Reading and relating with Frieda Fromm‐Reichmann and Joanne Greenberg

Critical Quarterly, EarlyView.
Joshua Pugh
wiley   +1 more source

Women in business: Gender and commercial space in nineteenth‐century Glasgow

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Focusing on women entrepreneurs in a large British city, we examine how women's commercially listed businesses populated that city. Using commercial property rental records, our study allows us to understand sectoral variation and the distribution of businesses across the city and to assess both the absolute and relative contribution of women ...
Graeme Acheson, Gill Newton, Linda Perriton   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source