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Medieval England (medieval + england)

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Humanities and Social Sciences88%

Kinds of Medieval England

  • late medieval england
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    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]

    Gendering the Black Death: Women in Later Medieval England

    GENDER & HISTORY, Issue 3 2000
    S. H. Rigby
    This review article of Mavis Mate's Daughters, Wives and Widows after the Black Death: Women in Sussex, 1350,1535 (1998) locates Mate's work within the broader context of the debate about changes in women's social position caused by the collapse in population following the Black Death. Was demographic decline accompanied by growing social and economic opportunities for women or should historians emphasise the continuity of female work as low-skilled, low-status and low-paid throughout the late medieval and early modern periods? How did women's role in the labour market affect the age of marriage, fertility rates and long-term population change? In general, Mate's conclusions offer support to the ,pessimists': women's work was vital to the household but economic centrality did not bring a commensurate social power or legal rights and the ideology of female subordination remained firmly in place. The main problem with Mate's case is, inevitably, a lack of evidence, for family structure, for the sexual division of labour and, above all, for affective relations. Nevertheless, this detailed, empirically based local study shows how successfully women's history has moved into the historical mainstream. [source]

    Estate Management, Investment and the Gentleman Landlord in Later Medieval England

    HISTORICAL RESEARCH, Issue 181 2000
    Deborah Youngs
    This article is based on a booklet of accounts for the small estate of Newton, Cheshire. Compiled 1498-1506 by Newton's gentry landlord, they provide rare information on the management and investment strategies of a minor gentleman for his demesne lands. It is to the gentry that historians have generally turned for evidence of enterprise and investment on medieval estates; but few specific examples have been found. This article offers a detailed example supporting the view of the enterprising gentleman, and arguing that a wider diversity of investment was undertaken on a medieval north Midland's estate than is usually appreciated. [source]

    The Cult of St George in Medieval England , By Jonathan Good

    HISTORY, Issue 318 2010
    NIGEL SAUL
    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]

    Waterways and Canal-Building in Medieval England , Edited by John Blair

    INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF NAUTICAL ARCHAEOLOGY, Issue 2 2010
    DAMIAN GOODBURN
    No abstract is available for this article. [source]

    Forces and Relations of Production in Early Medieval England

    JOURNAL OF AGRARIAN CHANGE, Issue 1 2009
    ROSAMOND FAITH
    The economy of post-Roman Britain entered a phase of abatement in which pastoralism played an important part. Common pasture and access to it underlay small regions within which the form of dominance practised by an emerging elite was neither antique nor feudal but akin to that of chieftains over clans. The mid-Saxon emphasis on arable farming, which demanded heavier and more concentrated inputs of labour and capital, led to a more direct appropriation of peasant surplus and labour, the basis of the feudal mode of production. [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]

    Signs of Devotion: The Cult of St. Æthelthryth in Medieval England, 695,1615 , By Virginia Blanton

    THE HISTORIAN, Issue 2 2009
    Karen A. Winstead
    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]

    Estimating arable output using Durham Priory tithe receipts, 1341,1450

    ECONOMIC HISTORY REVIEW, Issue 2 2004
    BEN DODDS
    Research on English late medieval economic history has neglected the evidence of tithes as indicators of agrarian output. In this article, methods used by historians of continental Europe have been developed and applied to the Durham Priory accounting material in order to create the first series of tithe-based production indicators for medieval England. The data are manipulated, and presented, to provide insight into long- and short-term trends in aggregate levels of arable production. The series of indicators are then used to examine the evidence for falling output in the late middle ages in the light of our understanding of demographic, economic, and climatic factors. [source]

    The lay subsidies and the distribution of wealth in medieval England, 1275,1334

    ECONOMIC HISTORY REVIEW, Issue 1 2004
    Pamela Nightingale
    This article examines the evidence that between 1275 and 1334 the lay subsidies provide a yardstick with which to measure the English economy. It compares their evidence with the chronological and geographical pattern of wealth obtainable from the Statute Merchant records of debt and concludes that the main discrepancies can be explained by the progressive exclusion from the tax valuations of wool, coin, and credit. Accordingly, from c. 1300 the lay subsidies cannot be used as a guide to the distribution of wealth in England and they can offer only a limited comparison with the wealth revealed by the Tudor subsidies. [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]

    Seigniorial control of villagers' litigation beyond the manor in later medieval England*

    HISTORICAL RESEARCH, Issue 213 2008
    Chris Briggs
    Medieval villagers were assiduous users of legal structures in defence of private interests. To enforce contracts against and recover debts from residents of other villages, rural plaintiffs had to prosecute in courts situated beyond the boundaries of their ,home' manors. The ability to sue elsewhere than the local manor court was thus crucial to commercial development in the countryside. This article explores the obstacles to such litigation, challenging the claim that servile villeinage acted to restrict villagers' choice of court. It lays the foundation for a larger investigation into the importance of villagers as civil litigants in ecclesiastical and royal jurisdictions. [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]

    Sex differentials in frailty in medieval England

    AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY, Issue 2 2010
    Sharon N. DeWitte
    Abstract In most modern populations, there are sex differentials in morbidity and mortality that favor women. This study addresses whether such female advantages existed to any appreciable degree in medieval Europe. The analyses presented here examine whether men and women with osteological stress markers faced the same risks of death in medieval London. The sample used for this study comes from the East Smithfield Black Death cemetery in London. The benefit of using this cemetery is that most, if not all, individuals interred in East Smithfield died from the same cause within a very short period of time. This allows for the analysis of the differences between men and women in the risks of mortality associated with osteological stress markers without the potential confounding effects of different causes of death. A sample of 299 adults (173 males, 126 females) from the East Smithfield cemetery was analyzed. The results indicate that the excess mortality associated with several osteological stress markers was higher for men than for women. This suggests that in this medieval population, previous physiological stress increased the risk of death for men during the Black Death to a greater extent than was true for women. Alternatively, the results might indicate that the Black Death discriminated less strongly between women with and without pre-existing health conditions than was true for men. These results are examined in light of previous analyses of East Smithfield and what is known about diet and sexually mediated access to resources in medieval England. Am J Phys Anthropol 143:285,297, 2010. © 2010 Wiley-Liss, Inc. [source]

    Oral health and frailty in the medieval English cemetery of St Mary Graces

    AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY, Issue 3 2010
    Sharon N. DeWitte
    Abstract The analysis of oral pathologies is routinely a part of bioarcheological and paleopathological investigations. Oral health, while certainly interesting by itself, is also potentially informative about general or systemic health. Numerous studies within modern populations have shown associations between oral pathologies and other diseases, such as cardiovascular disease, certain types of cancer, and pulmonary infections. This article addresses the question of how oral health was associated with general health in past populations by examining the relationship between two oral pathologies (periodontal disease and dental caries) and the risk of mortality in a cemetery sample from medieval England. The effects of periodontitis and dental caries on risk of death were assessed using a sample of 190 individuals from the St Mary Graces cemetery, London, dating to ,AD 1350,1538. The results suggest that the oral pathologies are associated with elevated risks of mortality in the St Mary Graces cemetery such that individuals with periodontitis and dental caries were more likely to die than their peers without such pathologies. The results shown here suggest that these oral pathologies can be used as informative indicators of general health in past populations. Am J Phys Anthropol, 2010. © 2009 Wiley-Liss, Inc. [source]