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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
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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
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INTERFACES BETWEEN EPIC POETRY, ROMANCE AND THE HISPANIC BALLAD IN 19TH CENTURY PARATEXTS
Revista Brasileira de Literatura Comparada, 2020 In the early years of Romanticism, romance, the long narrative poem of medieval origins, is taken as a model for literary inovation. However, though romance – which in the Iberian Peninsula relates to the local tradition of the hispanic ballad – is in ...
Marcos Machado Nunes
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The 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
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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
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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 +1 more
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Early 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
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“We Nudists Lead a Double Life”: The Double Life of Enrico S. Molnar
The Journal of American Culture, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Nudism, the social practice of being nude in community, has long been a site of curiosity and suspicion. Various authors have commented on the “double life” that a nudist leads, one wherein the nudist hides the nudist part of their lives from the non‐nudists around them.
Jonathan A. Allan
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