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Fish commoditization and the historical origins of catching fish for profit

Medievalists.net — Wed, 29 Jul 2015 20:17:00 +0000

Herring trade expanded in the late 1300s with the introduction in Holland of an improved curing process that allowed the salting of fresh herring in barrels at sea.

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How Much Taxes Did a Medieval Peasant Pay? The numbers from Sweden

Medievalists.net — Thu, 16 Jul 2015 13:38:13 +0000

A new study on taxation in late medieval Sweden has revealed fascinating details about how much peasants had to pay to the royal government in taxes.

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Medieval poaching site discovered in England

Medievalists.net — Mon, 08 Jun 2015 15:09:27 +0000

Archaeologists working in northern England have uncovered a stone-lined cess pit that was filled with dozens of bones from deer. The evidence suggests that they were dumped here by poachers.

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Environmental Crusading: The Teutonic Knight’s Impact After the Baltic Crusades

Medievalists.net — Thu, 12 Mar 2015 22:44:57 +0000

Environmental archaeologist and Professor of Archeology at Reading, Dr. Aleks Pluskowski, examined Malbork and several other sites across Eastern and Northern Europe in his recent paper, The Ecology of Crusading: The Environmental Impact of Holy War, Colonisation, and Religious Conversion in the Medieval Baltic. Pluskowski is keenly interested in the impact the Teutonic Knights and Christian colonisation had on the region. His ambitious 4 year project on the ecological changes in this area recently came to a close at the end of 2014.

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Local and Traditional on the Millennial Scale: Sustainable Waterfowl Management from Viking Age Iceland

Medievalists.net — Tue, 10 Mar 2015 00:19:40 +0000

Inhabited by Vikings since approximately 600 AD, the islands hosts an abundant, but terribly fragile resource, puffins, flightless birds that nest on rocky exposed cliffs, in easy range of the islanders other prime food source, pigs.

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The imperial abbey of Ellwangen and its peasants: a study of the polyptych of 1337

Medievalists.net — Sat, 31 Jan 2015 22:44:08 +0000

This paper presents an analysis of Ellwangen Abbey’s polyptych of 1337, with a view to understanding better the nature of the south German rural economy in this period.

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‘Falseness Reigns in Every Flock’: Literacy and Eschatological Discourse in the Peasants’ Revolt of 1381

Medievalists.net — Sun, 30 Nov 2014 22:27:15 +0000

The literature of the Peasants’ Revolt of 1381, a miscellany of fourteenth-century poetry and prose penned before, during, and after the insurrection, often stresses the importance of literacy to the nonaristocratic population of England.

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Of sagas and sheep: Toward a historical anthropology of social change and production for market, subsistence and tribute in early Iceland

Medievalists.net — Thu, 06 Nov 2014 12:50:13 +0000

This dissertation deals with the formation of chiefdoms, communities, ecclesiastical institutions and state, and with production for market, subsistence and tribute in early Iceland in the context of climatic change and ecological succession.

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The Importance of Parks in Fifteenth-Century Society

Medievalists.net — Tue, 21 Oct 2014 10:23:20 +0000

In this paper, my aim is to consider the role of parks in the fifteenth century.

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The Contours, Frequency and Causation of Subsistence Crises in Carolingian Europe (750-950)

Medievalists.net — Tue, 07 Oct 2014 12:50:54 +0000

The Contours, Frequency and Causation of Subsistence Crises in Carolingian Europe (750-950) Timothy P. Newfield Crisis Alimentarias en la Edad Media: Modelos, Explicaciones y Representaciones (Milenio, Lleida, 2013), pp. 117-172. Abstract The subsistence crises of Carolingian Europe have been widely overlooked in modern histories of the early Middle Ages. Detailed treatment has yet to be […]

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