Communities and sustainability in medieval and early modern Aragon, 1200-1600
This paper examines the case of sheep raising in Aragon from the thirteenth to the seventeenth century to explore the political dynamics and social criteria that rural communities used to manage their common land, and their role in larger economic and political frameworks.
The medieval monastery as franchise monopolist
This paper continues a line of inquiry begun by Ekelund, HCbert and Tollison, (hereafter, E-H-T) which uses the theories of monopoly, rent seeking, and industrial organization to explain the economics of the medieval monastery…
Anglo-Saxon labours of the months: representing May – a case study
‘Labours of the Months’ iconography is widely recognised in medieval studies, but the focus of research on the subject is most often trained on images from manuscripts of the twelfth century onwards
The Woodland Economy of Kent, 1066-1348
At the time of Domesday Book a great part of the county, perhaps a third, or even more, was tree clad, and while by the thirteenth century the proportion had fallen.
Practical Texts in Difficult Situations: Bulgarian Medieval Charms as Apocrypha and Fachliteratur
The apocrypha are one of the most important phenomena of the Middle Ages. They provide a different perspective and a valuable insight to the mentality of the period.
Slavery and the slave trade in pre-colonial Africa
Slavery and the Slave Trade have been age old institutions and practices in almost every continent in the world.
Frosts, Floods, and Famines – Climate in Relation to Hunger in North-East Europe A.D. 1100–1550
This Master’s thesis examines the relation between climatic conditions and hunger in Northeast Europe in A.D. 1100–1550.
The Crisis of the Fourteenth Century Reassessed: Between Ecology and Institutions – Evidence from England (1310-1350)
In England, as elsewhere in Northern Europe, the local population was hit by a series of harsh crises, the three most devastating of which were the Great Famine of 1314/5-22, the Great Cattle Plague of c.1315-21 and the Black Death of 1348-51
Modernization of the Government: the Advent of Philip the Good in Holland
Modernization of the Government: the Advent of Philip the Good in Holland Jansen, H.J.H Bijdragen en mededelingen betreffende de geschiedenis der Nederlanden, Vol.95 (1980)…
Capitols singulars deles llauors que deuras sembrar: A late medieval planting guide for the Spanish Levant
Capitols singulars deles llauors que deuras sembrar: A late medieval planting guide for the Spanish Levant By Thomas M. Capuano Catalan Review, Vol.12:1…
Resources, Roles, and Conflict: Active Resource Management in the Anglo-Norman Kingdom
Resources, Roles, and Conflict: Active Resource Management in the Anglo-Norman Kingdom By Dolores M. Wilson, M.A. Thesis, University of Houston (2003) Abstract: Contrary to…
Female Wage-Earners in Late Fourteenth-Century England
Historians are becoming increasingly aware of the role played by women in the economy of medieval England
Plague Mortality and Demographic Depression in Later Medieval England
Plague Mortality and Demographic Depression in Later Medieval England Poos, L.R. (Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge) THE YALE JOURNAL OF BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE, 54, (1981)…
Fodder and fodder resources in late‐medieval England: Output, consumption and crises
Fodder and fodder resources in late‐medieval England: Output, consumption and crises By Philip Slavin Paper given at the European Historical Economics Society Conference,…
Aragonese exarici in the twelfth century: their status and conditions
Aragonese exarici in the twelfth century: their status and conditions of landholding Stall, William C. Sharq Al-Andalus, No. 4 (1987) Abstract In the…
Between the field and the plate: how agricultural products were processed into food
Between the field and the plate: how agricultural products were processed into food By Dionysios Stathakopoulos Eat, Drink, and Be Merry, Luke 12:19:…
The Means of Agricultural Production: Muscle and Tools
The Means of Agricultural Production: Muscle and Tools Bryer, Anthony The Economic History of Byzantium: From the Seventh through the Fifteenth Century, Dumbarton Oaks Research…
Non-Manorialism in Medieval Cornwall
Non-Manorialism in Medieval Cornwall By John Hatcher The Agricultural History Review, Vol. 18, No. 1 (1970) Introduction: The almost infinite variety of manorial…
The Late Medieval Agrarian Crisis and Black Death plague epidemic in medieval Denmark: a paleopathological and paleodietary perspective
The Late Medieval Agrarian Crisis and Black Death plague epidemic in medieval Denmark: apaleopathological and paleodietary perspective Yoder, Cassady J. PhD Thesis, Texas A&M University,…
Beauty Aids in Renaissance Italy
Beauty Aids in Renaissance Italy By Briana Etain MacKorkhill Published Online (2007) Introduction: Since the beginning of time, people have felt the need…
A stroll through the park: evaluating the usefulness of phytolith and starch remains found on medieval sherds from Wicken, Northamptonshire, England
A stroll through the park: evaluating the usefulness of phytolith and starch remains found on medieval sherds from Wicken, Northamptonshire, England By Thomas…
Italian Renaissance Food-Fashioning or The Triumph of Greens
Conceptions of food in the Renaissance were also still influenced by the humoral-Galenic theory, which said that to keep the different ‘humors’ of the body in balance, a good diet had to be the result of foods balancing the moist/water and the dry/air, the warm/fire and the cold/earth, recalling again the four Aristotelian elements.
Medieval Farming and Flooding in the Brede Valley
Medieval Farming and Flooding in the Brede Valley By Mark Gardiner Romney Marsh: the Debatable Ground, ed. Jill Eddison, OUCA Monograph 41 (1995)…
The technology of medieval sheep farming: some evidence from Crawley, Hampshire, 1208–1349
The technology of medieval sheep farming: some evidence from Crawley, Hampshire, 1208–1349 Page, Mark Agricultural History Review, Vol.51:2 (2003) Abstract Sheep farming was…
Early Catalan Agricultural Writing and the Libre o regla o ensanyament de plantar o senbrar vinyes e arbres…
Early Catalan Agricultural Writing and the Libre o regla o ensanyament de plantar o senbrar vinyes e arbres… By Thomas M. Capuano Published…