From Islam to Christianity: Urban Changes in Medieval Portuguese Cities
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The Secret of Venetian Success: A Public-order, Reputation-based Institution
This paper examines the institutional foundations of the financial market underpinning Venice’s commercial success during the late-medieval period.
‘Ryght worchepfull mastres’: Letters of Request and Servants’ Scripting of Margaret Paston’s Social Self
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Forgery in the market place: A study of six medieval English towns
Covering the period 1250 to 1400, this paper focuses on prosecutions for weights and measures forgery in six towns: London, Norwich, Colchester, Great Yarmouth, Leicester and Nottingham.
A Building Site in Early Sixteenth-Century Normandy: The Castle of Gaillon, Organization, Workers, Materials and Technologies
The castle of Gaillon, built in Normandy between 1498 and 1510 for cardinal Georges I d’Amboise, has been considered one of the first and most significant achievements of the early French Renaissance.
FROM FOOTNOTES TO NARRATIVE: WELSH NOBLEWOMEN IN THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY
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Viking Age emporia around the Baltic Sea – a cul-de-sac of the European urbanization?
In northern Europe a new type of settlement appeared in the first millennium AD.
Muzyczna panorama średniowiecznego Krakowa
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KALAMAZOO 2011: Session 92 – Thursday, May 12, 2011: In Giro: Italian Identity and Travel in the Middle Ages
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Early Medieval Crystal Amulets: Secular Instruments of Protection and Healing
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A Comprehensive History of Beer Brewing
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KALAMAZOO 2011: Session 47 – Thursday, May 12: The Sacred and the Secular in Medieval Healing I: Images and Objects
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The Mese: Main Street of Constantinople
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Economic and Social Exchange in Renaissance Florence
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Concepts of Childhood: What We Know and Where We Might Go
They have explored such issues, among others, as the varieties of European household structure; definitions of the stages of life; childbirth, wetnursing, and the role of the midwife; child abandonment and the foundling home; infanticide and its prosecution; apprenticeship, servitude, and fostering; the evolution of schooling; the consequences of religious diversification; and the impact of gender