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Extreme weather and economic crisis in the 1430s in England, and the implications for tenurial change

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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Economic inequality and social mobility in preindustrial societies: What we know, what we don't (but should) know

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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Reading and relating with Frieda Fromm‐Reichmann and Joanne Greenberg

Critical Quarterly, EarlyView.
Joshua Pugh
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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
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The Last Line

Critical Quarterly, EarlyView.
Beci Carver
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The many prices of war and occupation: Black markets and the cost‐of‐living index in France, 1938–1949

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract When studying French prices between 1938 and 1949, economists and historians face a paradox: whilst a vast black market shaped daily life, official indices recorded only state‐controlled prices. This article addresses the issue by introducing a new consumer price index that incorporates both official and black market prices.
Patrice Baubeau, Matéo Teixeira
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Jorge Luis Borges' Medieval Aesthetics of Failure

Critical Quarterly, EarlyView.
Irina Dumitrescu
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Beyond Brunhild: reassessing women in the Fredegar Chronicle

Early 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
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On Not Being Stuck: Changing Humanities in 20th‐ and 21st‐Century Britain: The Lorna Sage Lecture, 2025

Critical Quarterly, EarlyView.
Helen Small
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Aristocratic identification in Felix’s Life of Guthlac

Early Medieval Europe, EarlyView.
Recent scholarship often sees high‐born monastics and clerics in early Christian England as part of the aristocratic class. Modern identity theories, however, suggest that social identity could be dynamic, situational, processual and discursive. In light of this concept, the present article reads Felix’s Life of Guthlac as a text that constructs an ...
Lek Hang Chan
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