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Oaths of Fidelity: Loyalty and Officeholding in Late Medieval Durham

open access: yesHistory, Volume 109, Issue 384-385, Page 34-58, April 2024.
Abstract Oaths of fidelity, homage and fealty were ubiquitous in late medieval England. Variously given by tenants, officeholders and retainers, such oaths represented a promise of loyalty and goodwill towards a lord. Individuals might make many such professions, perhaps as a tenant of one lord, an officer of another or a hired retainer of yet a third.
A.T. Brown
wiley   +1 more source

Redistribution and Long-Term Private Debt in Paris [PDF]

open access: yes, 1995
Based on a large sample from Parisian notarial records, this article examines the long-term private credit market in Paris in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries and analyzes how it was affected by government-caused redistribution.
Hoffman, Philip T.   +2 more
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Renaissance attachment to things: material culture in last wills and testaments [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Over the past decade ‘material culture’ has become a sub-discipline of Italian Renaissance studies. This literature, however, has focused on the rich and their objects preserved in museums or reflected in paintings.
Cohn, S.
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Doing Business in the Czech Republic [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
[Excerpt] Baker & McKenzie is one of the world’s largest law firms with its presence in 70 locations in 42 countries. We have been active in the Czech Republic since 1993 and our work includes a full range of legal and tax services directed primarily to ...
Baker & McKenzie
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Religious Women in Andalusia at the end of the Middle Ages: Economic Foundation and Family Ties [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
The aim of this article is to study the collectives of religious women who lived at the end of the Middle Ages in Andalusia. Researches about this item multiplied in the last years, but the analysis has been made from an institutional perspective. The
Pérez González, Silvia María
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Barnes Hospital Bulletin [PDF]

open access: yes, 1971
https://digitalcommons.wustl.edu/bjc_barnes_bulletin/1066/thumbnail ...

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Women, Men, and the Legal Languages of Mining in the Colonial Andes [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Histories of colonial Latin American mining have cemented the image of a scientifically backward society whose pursuit of easy wealth sacrificed the lives of indigenous and African miners in places like Potosí. By examining a mid seventeenth-century mine
Allison Margaret Bigelow
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Review of periodical literature for 2022: (ii) 1100–1500

open access: yes
The Economic History Review, Volume 77, Issue 1, Page 335-346, February 2024.
Spike Gibbs
wiley   +1 more source

Household Debt in Seventeenth-Century Württemberg: Evidence from Personal Inventories [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
The “less-developed” interior of early modern Europe, especially the rural economy, is often regarded as financially comatose. This paper investigates this view using a rich dataset of marriage and death inventories for seventeenth-century Germany.
Küpker, M., Maegraith, J., Ogilvie, S.
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