Medievalists.net » Economics – General http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Sun, 06 Dec 2015 19:35:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 Social Roles and Status of Women in a Norfolk small market Town Heacham 1276-1324 http://www.medievalists.net/2015/12/02/social-roles-and-status-of-women-in-a-norfolk-small-market-town-heacham-1276-1324/ http://www.medievalists.net/2015/12/02/social-roles-and-status-of-women-in-a-norfolk-small-market-town-heacham-1276-1324/#comments Thu, 03 Dec 2015 04:04:52 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=62963 The objective of this paper is to measure the involvement of women in the Heacham local food and drink market and to assess the social differentiation among these working women mentioned in the 43 leet courts (1276-1324 ca.)

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2015/12/02/social-roles-and-status-of-women-in-a-norfolk-small-market-town-heacham-1276-1324/feed/ 0 The Struggle is Real: Where are the Medieval Economists?! http://www.medievalists.net/2015/11/21/the-struggle-is-real-where-are-the-medieval-economists/ http://www.medievalists.net/2015/11/21/the-struggle-is-real-where-are-the-medieval-economists/#comments Sun, 22 Nov 2015 02:02:21 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=62687 Another fascinating paper from "Making the Medieval Relevant" was given by Daniel Curtis, a specialist in Social and Economic History, and a professor at the University of Utrecht.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2015/11/21/the-struggle-is-real-where-are-the-medieval-economists/feed/ 0 Recycling in Britain after the Fall of Rome’s Metal Economy http://www.medievalists.net/2015/11/12/recycling-in-britain-after-the-fall-of-romes-metal-economy/ http://www.medievalists.net/2015/11/12/recycling-in-britain-after-the-fall-of-romes-metal-economy/#comments Thu, 12 Nov 2015 22:38:15 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=62498 In actual fact, the bulk of contemporary evidence — which happens to be material rather than textual — clearly argues that the people of fifth- and early sixth-century eastern Britain were much more involved in subsistence agriculture than warfare, and that most people during much of this period lived in highly circumscribed worlds in a ranked, rather than a steeply hierarchical, society

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2015/11/12/recycling-in-britain-after-the-fall-of-romes-metal-economy/feed/ 0 Rapid Invention, Slow Industrialization, and the Absent Entrepreneur in Medieval China http://www.medievalists.net/2015/09/27/rapid-invention-slow-industrialization-and-the-absent-entrepreneur-in-medieval-china/ http://www.medievalists.net/2015/09/27/rapid-invention-slow-industrialization-and-the-absent-entrepreneur-in-medieval-china/#comments Mon, 28 Sep 2015 04:37:47 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=61378 For some sixteen centuries, about eight times the length of the period since the onset of England’s Industrial Revolution, China was the source of an astonishing outpouring of inventions that included a vast variety of prospectively valuable novelties as diverse as printing, the blast furnace, the spinning wheel, the wheelbarrow, and playing cards, in addition to the more widely recognized gunpowder and compass.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2015/09/27/rapid-invention-slow-industrialization-and-the-absent-entrepreneur-in-medieval-china/feed/ 0 Why did they stop building tower house castles in Ireland? http://www.medievalists.net/2015/08/12/why-did-they-stop-building-tower-house-castles-in-ireland/ http://www.medievalists.net/2015/08/12/why-did-they-stop-building-tower-house-castles-in-ireland/#comments Wed, 12 Aug 2015 16:56:27 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=60341 One of the most visible reminders of Ireland's medieval history are the tower house castles that are scattered throughout the country. For centuries they were the homes and fortresses for the native Irish elites as well as the English and Scottish settlers. However, by the early seventeenth-century it seems that they were now being abandoned and left the fall into ruin. What happened?

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2015/08/12/why-did-they-stop-building-tower-house-castles-in-ireland/feed/ 0 Some Remarks on the Economic Development of the Komnenian Byzantium http://www.medievalists.net/2015/05/07/some-remarks-on-the-economic-development-of-the-komnenian-byzantium/ http://www.medievalists.net/2015/05/07/some-remarks-on-the-economic-development-of-the-komnenian-byzantium/#comments Fri, 08 May 2015 02:34:54 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=58124 The purpose of this article is to identify some of the factors which contributed to this economic revival and rectify the image of Byzantium in the 12th century

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2015/05/07/some-remarks-on-the-economic-development-of-the-komnenian-byzantium/feed/ 0 Plague, Settlement and Structural Change at the Dawn of the Middle Ages http://www.medievalists.net/2015/04/15/plague-settlement-and-structural-change-at-the-dawn-of-the-middle-ages/ http://www.medievalists.net/2015/04/15/plague-settlement-and-structural-change-at-the-dawn-of-the-middle-ages/#comments Wed, 15 Apr 2015 05:43:40 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=57609 The plague of Justinian definitely hit the coastal areas of the lands surrounding the Mediterranean as well as the inland areas connected with the sea

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2015/04/15/plague-settlement-and-structural-change-at-the-dawn-of-the-middle-ages/feed/ 0 The Bones of St. Cuthbert: Defining a Saint’s Cult in Medieval Northumbria http://www.medievalists.net/2014/11/19/bones-st-cuthbert-defining-saints-cult-medieval-northumbria/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/11/19/bones-st-cuthbert-defining-saints-cult-medieval-northumbria/#comments Wed, 19 Nov 2014 15:57:24 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=54235 This paper investigates the social, political, and religious changes and tensions which surrounded the cult of St. Cuthbert in medieval Northumbria. Specific comparisons are made between the Anglo-Saxon and Norman periods in English history, and how St. Cuthbert's cult responded to the Norman Conquest in 1066.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/11/19/bones-st-cuthbert-defining-saints-cult-medieval-northumbria/feed/ 0 The Rise of a Tax State: Portugal, 1367-1401 http://www.medievalists.net/2014/10/25/rise-tax-state-portugal-1367-1401/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/10/25/rise-tax-state-portugal-1367-1401/#comments Sat, 25 Oct 2014 10:03:40 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=53615 This paper uses the case of fourteenth-century Portugal to question a common assumption of “fiscal history” literature, namely the linear relationship between war-related fiscal demands increase the level of taxation.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/10/25/rise-tax-state-portugal-1367-1401/feed/ 0 A monastic landscape: The Cistercians in medieval Leinster http://www.medievalists.net/2014/09/23/monastic-landscape-cistercians-medieval-leinster/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/09/23/monastic-landscape-cistercians-medieval-leinster/#comments Tue, 23 Sep 2014 10:56:10 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=52776 This study endeavours to discuss the Cistercian monasteries of Leinster with regard to their physical location in the landscape, the agricultural contribution of the monks to the broader social and economic world and the interaction between the cloistered monks and the secular world.

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