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Foreign influences on and innovation in English tomb sculpture in the first half of the sixteenth century [PDF]
This study is an investigation of stylistic and iconographic innovation in English tomb sculpture from the accession of King Henry VIII through the first half of the sixteenth century, a period during which Tudor society and Tudor art were in ...
Shilliam, Nicola J.
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American, British and Canadian Studies Journal, 2015 This article investigates the intersections of historical memory and political behavior during England’s “Exclusion Crisis” of 1679-1681. In doing so, I bring together theorists of social and historical memory in interpreting the Exclusion Crisis polemic.
Petrakos Christopher Ross
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The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract The 1430s were characterized by extreme weather conditions, food and fodder shortages, and high mortalities among animals and humans, although the severity of events and their consequences in England have received limited attention. The economic downturn and the depressed customary land market in this decade marked the beginning of the Great ...
Mark Bailey
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, 2019 Urban government and the foundation of new towns are fundamental to understanding Castilian expansion from the eleventh-century conquest of Toledo to the sixteenth-century conquest of Tenochtitlan. The economic, social, religious and military connections
Alonso García, David +2 more
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The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract One of the most contentious issues in the study of the Atlantic slave trade is the profitability of the trade. In this paper, we contribute by pooling all available data on transatlantic slave ship voyage accounts into a joint dataset. This dataset includes data from a period of 100 years (1730–1830) and from five nations (Denmark, France ...
Klas Rönnbäck +4 more
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Reading sixteenth century French texts
, 2010 Reading sixteenth century French ...
Dr Honor Aldred
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Networks paving the way: Apprenticeship, guilds, and access to mastership in early modern Genoa
The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract This paper investigates how kinship and professional networks shaped labour market outcomes in the guild‐based labour market of early modern Genoa. Using a newly constructed dataset of more than 8,000 apprenticeship contracts (1451–1530), I examine the extent to which family and guild connections influenced apprentices' chances of attaining ...
Alessandro Brioschi
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The politics of fashion: perceptions of power in female clothing and ornamentation as reflected in the sixteenth-century Chinese novel Jin Ping Mei [PDF]
, 1999 This thesis examines issues of female power and influence in sixteenth-century China focusing on how women and their roles were perceived in the changing social environment of the mid-late Ming dynasty.
Dauncey, Sarah, Dauncey, S.
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TECAThis paper presents the editions of Sixteenth-century poems preserved in the library of the castle of Castiglione del Terziere. Within this corpus it is possible to identify three focuses: the editions of Orlando furioso and other works by Ariosto; the ...
Nicola Catelli
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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
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