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Selective mortality during famine and plague events in medieval London. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Godde K, DeWitte SN, Beaumont J, Walter BS, Redfern R, Bekvalac JJ.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Strategic materials and state capacity in Renaissance Italy. The economic policies of ‘Roman saltpetre’ procurement

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Demonstrating the existence of a soaring demand for strategic materials in fifteenth‐century Rome, the article pioneers research in the late medieval trade in saltpetre, the irreplaceable, rare component of gunpowder, indispensable for waging war following the diffusion of artillery technology.
Fabrizio Antonio Ansani
wiley   +1 more source

A Medical Error of Saints Cosmas and Damian: Reflections on Fallibility and Medical Education From a Medieval Miracle. [PDF]

J Korean Med Sci
Kim M, Jeon JH.
europepmc   +1 more source

Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies : recognition scheme for educational oversight : review by the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education [PDF]

, 2012

core  

Felons’ chattels and English living standards in the later fourteenth and fifteenth centuries

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract The later fourteenth and fifteenth centuries have long occupied an intriguing and contested place in discussions of England's long‐run economic development. One key issue around which debate has coalesced is the living standards of the population as a whole and of different groups within it. We contribute to this debate by bringing forward new
Chris Briggs, Ben Jervis, Alice Forward, Tomasz Gromelski, Matthew Tompkins   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Introductory note

Práticas da História, 2021
António da Silva Rêgo, Joaquim Gafeira   +1 more
doaj  

Archaeogenetics reveals fine-scale genetic continuity and patterns of kinship and health in medieval Finland. [PDF]

iScience
Nordfors U, Peltola S, O'Sullivan RJ, Valtueña AA, Lamnidis TC, Majander K, Traverso L, Krause J, Salmela E, Onkamo P.   +9 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The slow emergence of the rational investor: Grain markets and grain storage of rural estates in western Germany, eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract We develop new datasets of monthly grain prices in 14 urban markets and of the storage and marketing of grain by 5 rural estates located in western Germany between the late seventeenth century and c. 1860. We explore whether observed patterns of monthly prices, sales, and storage of grain are consistent with the rational competitive storage ...
Matthias Hartermann, Ulrich Pfister, Friederike Scholten‐Buschhoff   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Lawnmower Poetry and the Poetry of Lawnmowers

Critical Quarterly, EarlyView.
Francesca Gardner
wiley   +1 more source

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