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Hadrian’s Wall, 1850–1950: Frontier and Monument

thersites. Journal for Transcultural Presences & Diachronic Identities from Antiquity to Date
This paper discusses the place of Hadrian’s Wall in British intellectual life between the mid-nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries, and charts its development through three key phases: the new season of archaeological and antiquarian research ...
Federico Santangelo
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Globalization and the Roman empire: the genealogy of ‘Empire’

, 2011
The use of concepts and ideas taken from the contemporary World in the studies on ancient Rome simply cannot be avoided. The studies that since 1990s onwards have criticized the term “Romanization” are not an exception. For this reason, the concept of “globalization” in reference to Ancient Rome can be helpful since it makes the anachronism in ...
openaire   +2 more sources

Food for the soul and food for the body. Studying dietary patterns and funerary meals in the Western Roman Empire: An anthropological and archaeozoological approach. [PDF]

PLoS One, 2022
Salazar-García DC, Colominas L, Jordana X.   +2 more
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Gender inequality in urban British Africa: Evidence from Anglican marriage registers

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract We examine the colonial origins and evolution of gender inequality in mission schooling and formal labour force participation across six cities in British colonial Africa, using marriage register data for some 30,000 Anglican brides and grooms well‐positioned to benefit from colonial educational and employment opportunities.
Felix Meier zu Selhausen, Jacob Weisdorf
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Declining female participation: Mechanisms at play in the Viennese private annuity market, c. 1360–1450

The 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
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The depth and breadth of capitalism at the Cape

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Limited liability company legislation was introduced to the Cape Colony in 1861. An amendment in 1892 led to wider adoption, expanding and diversifying the capital market. Using novel data from the Cape Joint Stock Archive between 1892 and 1902, this paper examines who invested, where capital flowed, and how these patterns shaped firm outcomes
Edward Kerby, Lloyd Melusi Maphosa
wiley   +1 more source

Portraying the Enemy

Central Europe, 2019
In the 1570s, Austria sent an embassy to the Ottoman capital of Constantinople in order to maintain contact during a fragile period of peace. This article examines the writings of two theologians, Stephan Gerlach and Salomon Schweigger, who were sent ...
Thorin Wenner
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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

Difference and the Liberation of Sufficient Reason

European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract The Principle of Sufficient Reason (PSR) holds that every event and entity can be explained by a sufficient reason or cause. Philosophers have long struggled with the question of the PSR's compatibility with freedom, for if what occurs or exists follows necessarily from its sufficient reason then it seems it could not have been otherwise ...
Louis Matheou
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Morality and the early medieval marketplace in the decrees of the Council of Paris, 829

Early Medieval Europe, EarlyView.
In summer 829, a group of bishops met at Paris with instructions from Emperor Louis the Pious to discuss the ailments of the Carolingian Empire. The decrees of this council include a series of chapters on economic abuses that collectively represent one of the most important sources on early medieval commercial relations.
Rory Naismith
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