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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

Medieval Studies in Chile. Review of their Formation and Publications [PDF]

, 2015
Rojas Donat, Luis
core   +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
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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
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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
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Reading and relating with Frieda Fromm‐Reichmann and Joanne Greenberg

Critical Quarterly, EarlyView.
Joshua Pugh
wiley   +1 more source

“The Growth of Interest”. Richard Wollheim on F. H. Bradley's Moral Psychology

European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper aims to reconstruct two key stages of Richard Wollheim's engagement with the moral psychology of F. H. Bradley—first in his 1959/1969 book on Bradley, and later in his 1993 collection of essays, The Mind and its Depths—and to connect them to Wollheim's own account of a dynamic moral psychology, as detailed in The Thread of Life ...
Paolo Babbiotti
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Leopoldo Zea on the role of Hegel's Master–Slave Dialectic in the philosophy of Latin American history

European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract In one of the most influential works in 20th‐century Latin America, Leopoldo Zea draws on Hegel's Master–Slave Dialectic to construct a philosophy of Latin American History from colonialism to the present. Yet his motives for organizing his work around these brief but suggestive passages from Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit have not been well ...
Pavel Reichl
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