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Late Medieval England (late + medieval_england)

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Humanities and Social Sciences100%

Selected Abstracts

The Economics of Marriage in Late Medieval England: The Marriage of Heiresses

ECONOMIC HISTORY REVIEW, Issue 3 2001
S. J. Payling
First page of article [source]

The Masculine Self in Late Medieval England by Derek G. Neal

GENDER & HISTORY, Issue 2 2010
AUDREY DE LONG
No abstract is available for this article. [source]

The Pastoral Care of Women in Late Medieval England by Beth Allison Barr

GENDER & HISTORY, Issue 1 2009
KATHERINE L. FRENCH
No abstract is available for this article. [source]

The Detection of Heresy in Late Medieval England By Ian Forrest

HISTORY, Issue 304 2006
R. N. SWANSON
No abstract is available for this article. [source]

Looking Inward: Devotional Reading and The Private Self in Late Medieval England , By Jennifer Bryan

RELIGIOUS STUDIES REVIEW, Issue 1 2010
David Zachariah Flanagin
No abstract is available for this article. [source]

The Senses in Late Medieval England.

THE HEYTHROP JOURNAL, Issue 6 2008
By C. M. Woolgar
No abstract is available for this article. [source]

Land and people in late medieval England , By Bruce M. S. Campbell

ECONOMIC HISTORY REVIEW, Issue 2 2010
BRENDAN SMITH
No abstract is available for this article. [source]

Field systems and farming systems in late medieval England , By Bruce M. S. Campbell

ECONOMIC HISTORY REVIEW, Issue 4 2009
JOHN S. MOORE
No abstract is available for this article. [source]

Monastic mortality: Durham Priory, 1395,15291

ECONOMIC HISTORY REVIEW, Issue 4 2006
JOHN HATCHER
This article presents reliable data on the life expectancy of the monks of Durham Priory between 1395 and 1529. The number of years that monks survived in this northern monastery plunged precipitously in the second half of the fifteenth century before staging a partial recovery in the early sixteenth. The experience of Durham monks mirrors the scale, direction, and timing of the data already produced for the monks of Canterbury and Westminster. While the precise relationship between monastic mortality and that of the population at large remains difficult to determine, there can be no doubt that the symmetry that has been established between mortality in three monasteries located in different parts of the country has important implications for our understanding of the demographic history of late medieval England. [source]

Baking for the common good: a reassessment of the assize of bread in Medieval England1

ECONOMIC HISTORY REVIEW, Issue 3 2004
JAMES DAVIS
This article reassesses the structure of the assize of bread and its relevance for bakers and consumers in late medieval England. It has long been thought that the laws governing the manufacture and sale of bread, although adhering to a logical relationship between weight and price, were nevertheless ill-considered in formulation, calculation, and enactment and did not, in reality, provide the stable allowance recommended for bakers. By examining the economic and moral ideology underlying the assize of bread it is possible to demonstrate that legislators were actually employing a rationale that best fitted contemporary circumstances and retail practices. There nevertheless remained one fundamental flaw in its construction, which was to have implications for its enforcement. [source]

Patterns of morbidity in late medieval England: a sample from Westminster Abbey

ECONOMIC HISTORY REVIEW, Issue 2 2001
Barbara Harver
A comparison between secular hospitals and monastic infirmaries introduces a discussion of the duration and seasonality of the illnesses of the monks of Westminster in two periods: 1297/8 to 1354/5 and 1381/2 to 1416/17. A change in the duration of illnesses is related to change in the conventions of treatment after the Black Death of 1348/9. The resemblance between the seasonal pattern of morbidity in this sample and that of mortality among male adults in the early modern period is discussed. It is suggested that the latter pattern may extend into the late middle ages. [source]

The expansion of the south-western fisheries in late medieval England

ECONOMIC HISTORY REVIEW, Issue 3 2000
Maryanne Kowaleski
This article argues that the expansion of marine fishing in south-western England from the late fourteenth century to the early sixteenth was part of the maritime sector's critical, but unappreciated, contribution to the rising prosperity of the region. Revenues from fishing represented a substantial supplement to the income of the fisher-farmers who dominated the industry; promoted employment in ancillary industries such as fish curing; improved the seasonal distribution of maritime work; and stimulated capital investment in ships, nets, and other equipment because of the share system that characterized the division of profits within fishing enterprises. In offering what was probably the chief source of employment within the maritime sector, fishing also provided the ,nursery of seamen' so prized by the Tudor navy, and built the navigational experience that underpinned later voyages of exploration. [source]

Late-medieval houses as an expression of social status*

HISTORICAL RESEARCH, Issue 200 2005
Anthony Emery
Houses are one of the glories of late medieval England. Several hundred of them survive, extending from complete residences to interesting remnants subsumed in later homes. They are a reflection of the social and political aspirations of their owners and can give an indication of the scale and form of their households. This article considers how these were translated into building programmes through courtyard expansion, the trappings of defence and the development of private suites, as well as by new domestic forms such as lodging ranges and residential tower-houses. [source]