Urban networks and emerging states in the North Sea and Baltic Areas: a maritime culture?
If we pretend to have reached a higher level of sophistication in our thinking, by what methods can we avoid causalities as those which nowadays would generally be refuted äs simplistic?
The Secret of Venetian Success: Public-order yet Reputation-based Institutions
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Making Reputation Work: Re-examining law, labor and enforcement among Geniza businessmen
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The medieval glass industry
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Genoese Trade with Syria in the Twelfth Century
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Taking the Templar Habit: Rule, Initiation Ritual, and the Accusations against the Order
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THE SEPHARDIM DIASPORA: A MODEL OF FORCED MIGRATION AND CONFISCATION
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The Middle Ages on the block: animals, Guilds and meat in the medieval period
Understanding the place of butchery in the medieval period requires a more in depth appraisal of the place of animals in medieval English culture. Fortunately, this period is perhaps one of the most interesting in terms of the lines of information available for this assessment. The rich historical evidence has led to research detailing the manufacture and uses of tools; the animals acquired and eaten in a number of different social contexts and accounts relating to the organisation of butchery.
Industrial Energy from Water-Mills in the European Economy, Fifth to Eighteenth Centuries: the Limitations of Power
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The symbiosis of towns and textiles: urban institutions and the changing fortunes of cloth manufacturing in the Low Countries and England, 1270 – 1570
The symbiosis of towns and textiles: urban institutions and the changing fortunes of cloth manufacturing in the Low Countries and England, 1270 – 1570 Munro,…
Auxiliary Preachers in the Northern Province: Supplementing the Parish Clergy in the Late Thirteenth and Early Fourteenth Centuries
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Food and the Maintenance of Social Boundaries in Medieval England
In this chapter, both zooarchaeological and historical evidence are used to explore variation in patterns of consumption among different sectors of medieval English society (ca. A.D. 1066-1520).
The Black Death and the origins of the ‘Great Divergence’ across Europe, 1300–1600
One important recent theme emerging from the literature on early modern Europe is that some of the key structural and institutional changes that are responsible for the increases in incomes may have taken place rather early, in the late medieval period or in the era of the Black Death.
The cartulary B of the chapter of Coutances : story of a resurrection
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Division of the dowry on the death of the daughter: An instance in the negotiation of laws and Jewish customs in early modern Tuscany
Division of the dowry on the death of the daughter: An instance in the negotiation of laws and Jewish customs in early modern…
De Saracenico in Latinum transferri: causes and effects of translation in the fiscal administration of Norman Sicily
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The 1272 Statute of the Town of Dubrovnik
The 1272 Statute of the Town of Dubrovnik Lučić, Josip Dubrovnik Annals 1 (1997) Abstract The Dubrovnik Statute is by all means one…
Lincoln c. 850-1100 : a study in economic and urban growth
The dissertation investigates the increasing number and complexity of towns between c. 850 and c. 1100, through the detailed study of Lincoln in this period.
The Wine Trade in Bristol in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries
The Wine Trade in Bristol in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries By Catherine R. Pitt MA Thesis, University of Bristol, 2006 Abstract: Bristol…
`For Whatever Ales Ye’: Women as Consumers and Producers in Late Medieval Scottish Towns
`For Whatever Ales Ye’: Women as Consumers and Producers in Late Medieval Scottish Towns By Elizabeth Ewan Women in Scotland: c.1100 – c.1750,…
Clothworkers and Social Protest: The Case of Thomas Deloney
Clothworkers and Social Protest: The Case of Thomas Deloney Hentschell, Roze Comitatus: A Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 32(1) (2001) Abstract Thomas…
Law, Legislation, and Lending: An Examination of the Influence of the Crusades on the Usury Prohibition
Law, Legislation, and Lending: An Examination of the Influence of the Crusades on the Usury Prohibition Ryan, Matthew James MA Thesis, University of…
Highlands and Lowlands in Late Medieval Tuscany
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From Egypt to Umbria: Jewish Women and Property in the Medieval Mediterranean
From Egypt to Umbria: Jewish Women and Property in the Medieval Mediterranean Frank, Karen A. (University of California – Santa Barbara) California Italian…
Crafts, Gilds, and Women in the Middle Ages: Fifty Years After Marian K. Dale
The treatment of working women by medieval gilds is a complex and varied story.