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Economic inequality and social mobility in preindustrial societies: What we know, what we don't (but should) know

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract In recent years economic inequality has become a major research topic in economic history. However, much remains to be done to complete our knowledge of long‐term distributive dynamics. This article highlights several promising avenues for future research, focusing on the preindustrial period.
Guido Alfani
wiley   +1 more source

Review of \u3cem\u3eGothic Plays and American Society, 1794-1830,\u3c/em\u3e by M. Susan Anthony [PDF]

, 2010
Hoeveler, Diane
core   +1 more source

Urban Housing and Land Use [PDF]

, 1934
Nelson, Herbert U.
core   +2 more sources

Hunting for Hollanders: The community responsibility system, trade sanctions, and public debt in the late‐medieval Low Countries

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
wiley   +1 more source

Beyond Brunhild: reassessing women in the Fredegar Chronicle

Early Medieval Europe, EarlyView.
Scholarly consideration of women in the seventh‐century Fredegar chronicle has long been dominated by the author’s hostility towards Brunhild, queen of Austrasia. Statistical analysis of Latin world chronicles before ad 900, however, shows that Fredegar’s representation of women was unusually high within this tradition.
Emily Quigley
wiley   +1 more source

Justine Breton, Un Moyen Âge en clair-obscur. Le médiévalisme dans les séries télévisées

Perspectives Médiévales
Elena Podetti
doaj   +1 more source

Aristocratic identification in Felix’s Life of Guthlac

Early Medieval Europe, EarlyView.
Recent scholarship often sees high‐born monastics and clerics in early Christian England as part of the aristocratic class. Modern identity theories, however, suggest that social identity could be dynamic, situational, processual and discursive. In light of this concept, the present article reads Felix’s Life of Guthlac as a text that constructs an ...
Lek Hang Chan
wiley   +1 more source

F IS FOR FALCON: THE TRUE STORY OF THE ‘NOVELLE’

German Life and Letters, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article takes a closer look at the Boccaccio story upon which Paul Heyse based his famous ‘Falken‐Theorie’ of the ‘Novelle’. The essay then links Boccaccio to a general account of storytelling as an aid to survival amid the hostility of nature and human circumstances.
Michael Minden
wiley   +1 more source