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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

Kerlan Collection Newsletter, Summer 2007

open access: yes, 2007
The Children's Literature Research Collection's Kerlan Collection is an internationally recognized center of research in the field of children's literature.
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‘Elbow grease and yellow soap’: Housework time in working‐class households in late‐nineteenth and early twentieth‐century Britain

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Housework is central to feminist calls for recognition of women's work, economic histories explaining the sexual division of labour, and claims regarding the progressive role of scientific knowledge. Yet little is known about the time it actually took. We address this lacuna.
Sara Horrell, Jane Humphries
wiley   +1 more source

Kerlan Collection Newsletter, Fall 2018

open access: yes, 2018
The Children's Literature Research Collection's Kerlan Collection is an internationally recognized center of research in the field of children's literature.
Children's Literature Research Collections
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Networks paving the way: Apprenticeship, guilds, and access to mastership in early modern Genoa

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper investigates how kinship and professional networks shaped labour market outcomes in the guild‐based labour market of early modern Genoa. Using a newly constructed dataset of more than 8,000 apprenticeship contracts (1451–1530), I examine the extent to which family and guild connections influenced apprentices' chances of attaining ...
Alessandro Brioschi
wiley   +1 more source

The Kerlan Newsletter, Fall 2025 [PDF]

open access: yes
The Children's Literature Research Collection's Kerlan Collection is an internationally recognized center of research in the field of children's literature.
Children's Literature Research Collections
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The bread of Toledo: Prices and political economy, 1535–1800

open access: yesThe 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   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Children's Literature and Its Effects The Formative Years

open access: yes
A study of children's authors who are typical of their time, such as Enid Blyton, Angela Brazil, Judy Blume and Ronald Dahl. The book discusses comics as well as "classic" texts, and the possible effects of these materials on children's attitudes.Intro --
Cullingford, Cedric.
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Kerlan Collection Newsletter, Winter-Spring 2011

open access: yes, 2011
The Children's Literature Research Collection's Kerlan Collection is an internationally recognized center of research in the field of children's literature.
Children's Literature Research Collections
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The stone and the shadow: peasant and aristocratic land appropriation in early medieval Galicia (north‐west Iberia)

open access: yesEarly Medieval Europe, EarlyView.
This paper explores the social dynamics of land appropriation in early medieval Galicia (north‐west Iberia), focusing on the central role labour played in narratives and practices. To that end, it analyses the entire regional corpus of more than one thousand charters dating before 1100, whose distinctive scriptural practices offer exceptional insight ...
Andrea Aparicio Lozano
wiley   +1 more source

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