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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
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Kerlan Collection Newsletter, Summer 2007
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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
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Kerlan Collection Newsletter, Fall 2018
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Networks paving the way: Apprenticeship, guilds, and access to mastership in early modern Genoa
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
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The Kerlan Newsletter, Fall 2025 [PDF]
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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The bread of Toledo: Prices and political economy, 1535–1800
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
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Children's Literature and Its Effects The Formative Years
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
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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
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