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Limits to the power of economic elites?: Wealth, authority, and inequality in eastern English villages, c. 1350–c. 1550

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This article investigates the impact of local political institutions on inequality in eastern England between c. 1350 and c. 1550. Specifically, it examines the extent to which wealthier individuals controlled local governance structures in the form of manor courts through linking the identities of individuals who served as manorial officials ...
Spike Gibbs
wiley   +1 more source

Lawnmower Poetry and the Poetry of Lawnmowers

open access: yes
Critical Quarterly, EarlyView.
Francesca Gardner
wiley   +1 more source

Riding the monsoon: Geography and Iron Age trade in the Indian Ocean

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper exploits ancient textual sources to develop a database of ancient trade in the Indian Ocean and model trade in the region during the Iron Age. Wind‐speed data are used to construct a gravity model of trade and are combined with detailed textual data from the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea to analyse historical development trends in ...
Conrad Copeland
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Peasants into Muslims: Poverty and conversions to Islam in Ottoman Bosnia

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Whilst economic historians have invested substantial effort into understanding the economic consequences of religion, they have invested less effort into understanding the determinants of religious affiliation. The lack of knowledge about determinants of religious affiliation seems particularly striking in the case of Southeastern Europe ...
Leonard Kukić, Yasin Arslantas
wiley   +1 more source

Experience

open access: yes
Critical Quarterly, EarlyView.
Peter Womack
wiley   +1 more source

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