Exploring modern bank penetration: Evidence from early twentieth‐century Netherlands
The Economic History Review, Volume 76, Issue 3, Page 892-916, August 2023., 2023 Abstract We analyse the estate composition of the richest 30 per cent of people who died in the Netherlands in 1921 to find that households used a broad range of institutions to meet their financial demands. Goods and services were either paid in cash or settled periodically with suppliers.
Oscar Gelderblom +3 more
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Feathers and the Making of Luxury Experiences at the Sixteenth‐Century Spanish Court☆
Renaissance Studies, Volume 37, Issue 3, Page 399-438, June 2023., 2023 Abstract This article charts the activities of featherworkers (plumajeros) at the Habsburg court in Madrid. Drawing on archival records, objects, and paintings from sixteenth‐century Spain, I argue that royal featherworkers' skills, wit, and intricacy in the transformation of materials established feathers as luxury items.
Stefan Hanß
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Spelling correctness as a witness of changing documentary culture in Tuscia (eighth–ninth centuries)
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 31, Issue 2, Page 220-251, May 2023., 2023 This paper discusses the evolution of documentary culture in early medieval Tuscia by quantitatively examining the Latin spelling of charter scribes in relation to the following factors: time, the distinction between the formulaic and non‐formulaic parts of the document, the scribe’s domicile, the scribe’s professional status, and the document type ...
Timo Korkiakangas
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Crossing the Line: Cristóbal de Villalpando and the Surplus of Script
Art History, Volume 45, Issue 2, Page 308-341, April 2022., 2022 In 1706 Cristóbal de Villalpando signed a painting with an unusual, intensive calligraphic flourish, and sent it from Mexico City far to the north. This essay describes Villalpando's decision to invest so much pictorial energy in letterforms against this geographic backdrop.
Aaron M. Hyman
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Reform of assignation in security: lessons from The Netherlands [PDF]
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Anderson, R.G., Biemans, J.
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The Development of Intermediation in French Credit Markets: Evidence from the Estates of Burgundy [PDF]
, 2002 We document how intermediaries shaped markets or, conversely, how market institutions constrained intermediaries. In Dijon, where the Estates of Burgundy's debt amounted to nearly half of all bonds in that small market, there was limited need for ...
Potter, Mark, Rosenthal, Jean-Laurent
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The Kai Ba Lidai Shiji 开吧历代史记 an Autonomous History of the Chinese Community of Batavia/ Jakarta in the VOC Period [PDF]
, 2017 This essay critically examines the Kai Ba Lidai Shiji (Annals of Batavia), a Chinese history of Batavia which was written by an anonymous Chinese author around 1794 as part of the rather large corpus of Chinese archival sources about the history of the ...
Blussé, L. (Leonard)
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Capitalism and Financial Development: The Case of Mortgage Markets in France, 1807-1899 [PDF]
, 2014 Historical research can contribute to greater understanding of economic growth, but only if it proceeds without theoretical blinders and assumptions imposed by past definitions of capitalism.
Hoffman, Philip T. +2 more
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Corporate governance and stock market performance in Central and Eastern Europe: a study of nine countries, 1994-2001 [PDF]
, 2002 This paper offers analysis of corporate governance issues behind the stock market performance (stock returns and activity) in nine Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries: the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania ...
Pajuste, A.
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Determination of Indoor Air Quality in Archives and Biodeterioration of the Documentary Heritage
International Scholarly Research Notices, Volume 2012, Issue 1, 2012., 2012 Documentary heritage is permanently subject to suffering from physical, chemical, and/or biological alterations. Biological deterioration by microorganisms (bacteria and fungi) causes undesirable changes on material properties. Microorganisms affect different organic, natural or synthetic substrates (cellulose, polycarbonates), metals, and compounds of
Sofía Borrego +6 more
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