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Cultural innovation can increase and maintain biodiversity: A case study from medieval Europe. [PDF]

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
Spitzig A, Rösch M, Woodbridge J, Bauch M, Guzowski P, Erhart P, Fyfe R, Marinova E, Izdebski A.   +8 more
europepmc   +1 more source

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

Genetic genealogy of the Piast dynasty and related European royal families. [PDF]

Nat Commun
Zenczak M, Handschuh L, Marcinkowska-Swojak M, Stolarek I, Golubiński M, Juras A, Trzciński D, Chyleński M, Dębski A, Losik A, Jasiński T, Wrzesińska A, Matla M, Kóčka-Krenz H, Legocki AB, Dobosz J, Figlerowicz M.   +16 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

Slavs in the closet: computational genomic analysis reveals cryptic slavic signatures in the Avar Khaganate and their contribution to medieval Croatian population formation. [PDF]

Front Genet
Chobanov T, Stamov S, for Bulgarian Academy of Science and Institute for Balkan Studies.   +2 more
europepmc   +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

Introductory note

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

Most males in modern Poland carry Y-chromosomal lineages from clades that have recently expanded over Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe. [PDF]

Hum Genet
Milewski M, Dawidziuk M.
europepmc   +1 more source

Declining female participation: Mechanisms at play in the Viennese private annuity market, c. 1360–1450

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
wiley   +1 more source

At the Crossroads of Continents: Ancient DNA Insights into the Maternal and Paternal Population History of Croatia. [PDF]

Genes (Basel)
Marjanović D, Šarac J, Havaš Auguštin D, Novak M, Bašić Ž, Kružić I, Novokmet N, Cheronet O, Gelabert P, Pinhasi R, Lauc G, Primorac D.   +11 more
europepmc   +1 more source