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A short comment on the early development of Odense

open access: yesDanish Journal of Archaeology, 2018
In a recent overview of the material from eighth to twelfth century Odense, Runge and Henriksen propose to move the date of the town’s foundation by a hundred years, to the early tenth century.
Olav Elias Gundersen   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Combined Approach to Locate Medieval Fortified Manor Houses in Central Moravia (the Czech Republic)

open access: yesArchaeometry, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A systematic prospection of medieval fortified manor houses (FMHs) in Central Moravia (Czech Republic) was conducted with the aim of mapping their distribution and facilitating both further scholarly research and more effective heritage protection by responsible institutions.
Martin Moník   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Antinomies of Nativism: Understanding Decoloniality Theory's Affinities with the Global Far Right

open access: yesDevelopment and Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the peculiar conjuncture of decolonial theory and contemporary far‐right ideology. It argues that their shared fixation on the dualism of native and settler is immanent to the development of advanced capitalism, particularly the sharpening of its contradictory tendency to undermine labour as the source of value, and to ...
Aylin Bademsoy, Neil Larsen
wiley   +1 more source

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

open access: yesThe 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

Extreme weather and economic crisis in the 1430s in England, and the implications for tenurial change

open access: yesThe 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
wiley   +1 more source

Merchants, commissioners and wardmasters : municipal politics in Cape Town, 1840-1854 [PDF]

open access: yes, 1986
Bibliography: leaves 260-272.Merchants,Commissioners and Wardmasters: Municipal Politics in Cape Town, 1840-854 explores the social, political and economic changes and conflicts that helped to determine Cape Town's evolution in the mid nineteenth century.
Warren, Digby
core   +1 more source

A Guide to the Classification of Medieval Ceramic Forms

open access: yes, 2020
'A Guide to the Classification of Medieval Ceramic Forms' (Medieval Pottery Research Group Occasional Paper 1) was published in 1998 with grant funding from English Heritage.
Medieval Pottery Research Group
core   +1 more source

Women in business: Gender and commercial space in nineteenth‐century Glasgow

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Focusing on women entrepreneurs in a large British city, we examine how women's commercially listed businesses populated that city. Using commercial property rental records, our study allows us to understand sectoral variation and the distribution of businesses across the city and to assess both the absolute and relative contribution of women ...
Graeme Acheson   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The geographical position of the town of Rasa based on Porphyrogenitus and medieval maps

open access: yesActa Geographica Slovenica, 2018
The town of Rasa was mentioned in the tenth-century work De administrando imperio by Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus. The significance of this town in the Middle Ages is indicated by the fact that this toponym appears on old maps created by the greatest ...
Mirko Grčić   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

‘Elbow grease and yellow soap’: Housework time in working‐class households in late‐nineteenth and early twentieth‐century Britain

open access: yesThe 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
wiley   +1 more source

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