Medievalists.net » Poverty http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Mon, 07 Dec 2015 05:01:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 A First Escape from Poverty in Late Medieval Japan: Evidence from Real Wages in Kyoto (1360-1860) http://www.medievalists.net/2014/09/26/first-escape-poverty-late-medieval-japan-evidence-real-wages-kyoto-1360-1860/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/09/26/first-escape-poverty-late-medieval-japan-evidence-real-wages-kyoto-1360-1860/#comments Sat, 27 Sep 2014 01:04:00 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=52872 This paper offers a first investigation of long-term trends in Japanese living standards from the mid-14th to the mid-19th century using urban daily wages and price data for a number of basic commodities.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/09/26/first-escape-poverty-late-medieval-japan-evidence-real-wages-kyoto-1360-1860/feed/ 0 Narratives of resistance: arguments against the mendicants in the works of Matthew Paris and William of Saint-Amour http://www.medievalists.net/2014/09/08/narratives-resistance-arguments-mendicants-works-matthew-paris-william-saint-amour/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/09/08/narratives-resistance-arguments-mendicants-works-matthew-paris-william-saint-amour/#comments Mon, 08 Sep 2014 16:27:22 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=52443 The rise of the new mendicant orders, foremost the Franciscans and Dominicans, is one of the great success stories of thirteenth-century Europe. Combining apostolic poverty with sophisticated organization and university learning, they brought much needed improvements to pastoral care in the growing cities.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/09/08/narratives-resistance-arguments-mendicants-works-matthew-paris-william-saint-amour/feed/ 0 The English Peasants’ Revolt of 1381 http://www.medievalists.net/2013/12/08/the-english-peasants-revolt-of-1381/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/12/08/the-english-peasants-revolt-of-1381/#comments Sun, 08 Dec 2013 22:31:14 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=45594 Life for the revolutionary peasants was structured by feudal ties and obligations. The villein was tied to the soil until he could buy his freedom. He lived in a wattle and daub hut with his family and animals on a floor of mud. Work began at dawn on his few (often separated) strips of land; he was obligated to work on his lord's land three days a week, tend and shear his sheep, feed his swine, and sow and reap his crops.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2013/12/08/the-english-peasants-revolt-of-1381/feed/ 0 Into the frontier: medieval land reclamation and the creation of new societies. Comparing Holland and the Po Valley, 800-1500 http://www.medievalists.net/2013/09/29/into-the-frontier-medieval-land-reclamation-and-the-creation-of-new-societies-comparing-holland-and-the-po-valley-800-1500/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/09/29/into-the-frontier-medieval-land-reclamation-and-the-creation-of-new-societies-comparing-holland-and-the-po-valley-800-1500/#comments Sun, 29 Sep 2013 09:15:15 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=43938 In the paper it is shown that medieval land reclamation led to the emergence of two very divergent societies, characterised by a number of different configurations; (a) power and property structure, (b) modes of exploitation, (c) economic portfolios, and (d) commodity markets.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2013/09/29/into-the-frontier-medieval-land-reclamation-and-the-creation-of-new-societies-comparing-holland-and-the-po-valley-800-1500/feed/ 0 The Mind’s Eye: Reconstructing the Historian’s Semantic Matrix Through Henry Knighton’s Account of the Peasants’ Revolt, 1381 http://www.medievalists.net/2013/02/11/the-minds-eye-reconstructing-the-historians-semantic-matrix-through-henry-knightons-account-of-the-peasants-revolt-1381/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/02/11/the-minds-eye-reconstructing-the-historians-semantic-matrix-through-henry-knightons-account-of-the-peasants-revolt-1381/#comments Tue, 12 Feb 2013 00:35:53 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=39198 The Mind’s Eye: Reconstructing the Historian’s Semantic Matrix Through Henry Knighton’s Account of the Peasants’ Revolt, 1381 Sarah Marilyn Steeves Keeshan Master of Arts, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia December (2011) Abstract The medieval historian engaged with the systems of power and authority that surrounded him. In his account of the Peasants’ Revolt in late medieval […]

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2013/02/11/the-minds-eye-reconstructing-the-historians-semantic-matrix-through-henry-knightons-account-of-the-peasants-revolt-1381/feed/ 0 The Impact of Climate Change on Late Medieval English Culture http://www.medievalists.net/2012/12/28/the-impact-of-climate-change-on-late-medieval-english-culture/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/12/28/the-impact-of-climate-change-on-late-medieval-english-culture/#comments Fri, 28 Dec 2012 13:48:27 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=38344 This thesis challenges the extremes of both environmental determinism and the modernist perspective that humanity exists in social and/or cultural isolation from the natural environment.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/12/28/the-impact-of-climate-change-on-late-medieval-english-culture/feed/ 0 Medicine and Health Care in Later Medieval Europe: Hospitals, Public Health, and Minority Medical Practitioners in English and German Cities, 1250-1450 http://www.medievalists.net/2012/11/18/medicine-and-health-care-in-later-medieval-europe-hospitals-public-health-and-minority-medical-practitioners-in-english-and-german-cities-1250-1450/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/11/18/medicine-and-health-care-in-later-medieval-europe-hospitals-public-health-and-minority-medical-practitioners-in-english-and-german-cities-1250-1450/#comments Sun, 18 Nov 2012 19:26:38 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=37240 This interdisciplinary study, written from the standpoint ofan aspiring physician, seeks to contribute to the humanistic dimension of medicine by helping to integrate it further with its past, illuminating the meaning of health and disease in medieval society while adding depth to current thinking about medicine and public health. This study places various aspects ofhealth and disease within the framework of two major topics, religious beliefs and urban social history.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/11/18/medicine-and-health-care-in-later-medieval-europe-hospitals-public-health-and-minority-medical-practitioners-in-english-and-german-cities-1250-1450/feed/ 0 A Distant World: Russian Relations with Europe Before Peter the Great http://www.medievalists.net/2012/10/04/a-distant-world-russian-relations-with-europe-before-peter-the-great/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/10/04/a-distant-world-russian-relations-with-europe-before-peter-the-great/#comments Thu, 04 Oct 2012 14:15:52 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=36207 Despite their isolation and poverty, the Slavic plowmen succeeded in settling this unforgiving region, expanding their numbers, and, most importantly, creating the beginnings of a trading network along the many rivers of the region—the western Dvina, the Volkhov, the northern Dvina, and the Dniepr and its tributaries.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/10/04/a-distant-world-russian-relations-with-europe-before-peter-the-great/feed/ 0 Gender Equality in Wage Labour Relations: the example of statutory regulation in late medieval and early Tudor England http://www.medievalists.net/2012/09/02/gender-equality-in-wage-labour-relations-the-example-of-statutory-regulation-in-late-medieval-and-early-tudor-england/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/09/02/gender-equality-in-wage-labour-relations-the-example-of-statutory-regulation-in-late-medieval-and-early-tudor-england/#comments Sun, 02 Sep 2012 23:33:59 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=35328 The first question, not yet raised in labour historiography, is about the impact of wage labour relations on gender equality.
The second question is related to the first one: what role did women play as protagonists of wage labour relations.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/09/02/gender-equality-in-wage-labour-relations-the-example-of-statutory-regulation-in-late-medieval-and-early-tudor-england/feed/ 0 The Court of Beast and Bough: Contesting the Medieval English Forest in the Early Robin Hood Ballads http://www.medievalists.net/2012/05/06/the-court-of-beast-and-bough-contesting-the-medieval-english-forest-in-the-early-robin-hood-ballads/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/05/06/the-court-of-beast-and-bough-contesting-the-medieval-english-forest-in-the-early-robin-hood-ballads/#comments Sun, 06 May 2012 21:23:03 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=31573 The medieval English forest has long been a space of contested legal meanings. After King William I first created the 75,000-acre New Forest, the English monarchy sought to define the vert, both legally and ideologically, as a multiplicity of sites in which the king’s rights were vigorously enforced.

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