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Gender inequality in urban British Africa: Evidence from Anglican marriage registers

open access: yesThe 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
wiley   +1 more source

Vice-versa: The iron trade in the western Roman Empire between Gaul and the Mediterranean. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS One, 2022
Pagès G   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

9. The Holy Roman Empire: A Monarchial Failure

open access: yes, 1958
Royal efforts to create national states and strong monarchies during the later Middle Ages succeeded in England, France, and Spain for different reasons and under different circumstances.
Bloom, Robert L.   +6 more
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Declining female participation: Mechanisms at play in the Viennese private annuity market, c. 1360–1450

open access: yesThe 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
wiley   +1 more source

Beyond Brunhild: reassessing women in the Fredegar Chronicle

open access: yesEarly 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

A Legal Paradox: The Roman Republic’s Legal Code’s Influence and Manifestation in the Soviet Union’s Jurisprudence

open access: yesNordicum-Mediterraneum
One would think of Roman Law and Soviet Law to be strange bedfellows, given the socialist-communist governmental regimes of the Soviet Union and the republican regime of the early Roman Empire.
Jonathan Wood
doaj   +1 more source

Globalization and the Roman empire: the genealogy of ‘Empire’

open access: yes, 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

Il sito web Impero romano e intellettuali greci [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
The website Impero Romano e Intellettuali Greci presents a selection of texts by Greek authors from the first imperial age on the topic of the Roman Empire. Each of these texts is tagged to identify the most important issues concerning the empire of Rome.
Fontanella, F., Merlitti, D.
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