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Forgotten Family: The Influence of Women and Children on the Nexus of Wage Earning and Demographic Change in England, 1260–1860
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2024) 54 (3): 529–558.
Published: 01 September 2024
... at marriage. We use regression analysis to determine the effects of changes in male and female remuneration on these demographic outcomes. 35 Table 1. Regression results: Crude birth and marriage rates, ages at marriage, and remuneration. Ages at marriage: Outcome variables: Crude...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2024) 54 (3): 445–456.
Published: 01 September 2024
...Julianne Werlin In England, the period from the late Middle Ages through early modernity was bookended by demographic change. On one edge, there was the Black Death and subsequent plague pandemics, which halved the population, reshaping English society in their wake. On the other...
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Labor and Social Reproduction in an Industrializing English Village, ca. 1680–1780
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2024) 54 (3): 637–668.
Published: 01 September 2024
... and social change in an exceptionally well‐documented rural community in England, the parish of Chilvers Coton (Warwickshire). In focusing on the changing occupational structure of this industrializing village, the discussion puts human flesh on the bare bones of demographic analysis and reconstructs...
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The Black Death, Girl Power, and the Emergence of the European Marriage Pattern in England
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2024) 54 (3): 493–528.
Published: 01 September 2024
..., 1999). 17 Sara Horrell, Jane Humphries, and Jacob Weisdorf, “Forgotten Family: The Influence of Women and Children on the Nexus of Wage Earning and Demographic Change in England, 1260–1850,” Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 54, no. 3 (2024): 529–58, at 531. 18 Nico...
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Plague Strikes Back: The Pestis Secunda of 1361–62 and Its Demographic Consequences in England and Wales
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2024) 54 (3): 457–491.
Published: 01 September 2024
...Philip Slavin This article looks at the demographic contours and impact of the pestis secunda —the second wave of the Second Plague Pandemic—which ravaged England and Wales in 1361–62. The study is based on a rich corpus of statistical data deriving from manorial records—primarily court rolls...
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Charity, Neighbors, and Gender in London Godly Sermons: John Downham and William Gouge
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2024) 54 (3): 593–615.
Published: 01 September 2024
... to recognize one’s neighbor in need, even in the face of the rapidly changing demographics of the city. In doing so, it paints an affectively strenuous picture of what it means to be part of the godly community. In grounding his definition of beneficence in the philosophy of “the heathen man,” Downham...
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The Discovery of English Wants: Dearth and Plenty in Early Modern Anglo-Indian Exchanges
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2024) 54 (3): 559–591.
Published: 01 September 2024
... by attempts to comprehend, inhabit, and write the complex, contingent spaces of other populations and their needs, wants, and crises, as well as those of Britain. The English commonwealth was thus reimagined in the context of the wider demographics of plural populations. [email protected]...
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When the Dead Cry: Crime, Population, and Popular Literature in Early Modern Southwark
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2024) 54 (3): 617–635.
Published: 01 September 2024
... of Apprenticeship in Early Modern London,” Continuity and Change 25, no. 3 (2010): 377–404. 27 The National Archives, Kew, Assize record for Surrey (at Croydon), March 1, 1620, ASSI 35/62/5, m. 38r. 26 See Scott Oldenburg, A Weaver-Poet and the Plague: Labor, Poverty, and the Household...
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Early Stuart Clergyman Poets: A Prosopographic Approach
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2022) 52 (2): 335–360.
Published: 01 May 2022
..., underlying patterns rather than facts in their own right. Nevertheless, they are potentially valuable clues: the rising percentages of poets who were members of the clergy appears to reflect real trends. It corresponds, first of all, to the growth of the clergy in the period. It also reflects a change...
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Death and the Maiden
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2012) 42 (2): 269–305.
Published: 01 May 2012
.... In Greek myth, an unwilling Persephone was abducted and raped by
Hades, but her personal terrors were cast as mere preludes to the grander
task of explaining seasonal change. “Death and the Maiden” offers a rich
cultural vein that speaks about patriarchy, but much more besides
Although “Death...
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Place, Health, and Disease: The Airs, Waters, Places Tradition in Early Modern England and North America
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2008) 38 (3): 443–465.
Published: 01 September 2008
... by the treatise,
with northerners (“Europeans”) being larger, harder, leaner, more intelligent
and braver than the people in “Asia.”4 There the climate is less changeable,
the crops and nature are luxuriant, and less effort is required to sustain life
(159 – 61). Constant change in climate means...
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“A wife or friend at e’ery Port”: The Common Sailor in Ballads of the Early British Empire
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2020) 50 (2): 431–453.
Published: 01 May 2020
..., counters that everyone must die sometime anyway, and proclaims that the risk of going to sea exposes 434 Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 50.2 / 2020 desperate and unruly people to the kinds of good discipline that could change their former course of life, and so advance their fortunes...
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Sacrilege and Theatricality: the Croxton Play of the Sacrament
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2003) 33 (2): 281–309.
Published: 01 May 2003
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—Meister Eckhart1
In the later Middle Ages, Christ’s body changes tense, number, and shape.
It is unique, past, and unrepeatable: dead, resurrected, and ascended to where,
in the words of the Nicene Creed, it is “of one substance with the Father.”
In each performance of the Eucharist, however...
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From Prostitutes to Brides of Christ: The Avignonese Repenties in the Late Middle Ages
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2002) 32 (1): 109–144.
Published: 01 January 2002
....8 The move of the papacy to Avignon in
the early years of the fourteenth century (1309–78) and the ensuing male
demographic explosion exacerbated prostitution, even though it already was
well established before this period.9
Communal authorities controlled prostitutes by acknowledging...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2009) 39 (3): 459–481.
Published: 01 September 2009
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Luxury objects and fashionable garments were valuable assets that set elite
families apart from the working poor.9 Over two centuries of great economic
and demographic expansion (ca. 1450 – ca. 1650), new patterns of produc-
tion, merchandizing, and consumption in the creation...
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Prudence and Experience: Ambassadors and Political Culture in Early Modern Italy
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2008) 38 (1): 15–34.
Published: 01 January 2008
.... Nevertheless, the development
of stable diplomatic relations has characterized Europe from the sixteenth
century, in a context marked, as scholars have noted, by certain profound
changes in political life and culture: the weakening of universal powers; the
rupture of European religious unity...
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Historical Materialism: Social Structure and Social Change in the Middle Ages
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2004) 34 (3): 473–522.
Published: 01 September 2004
... contrasting situation in
which the peasants were nott able to win their freedom. Those such as Postan
who stress the role of demographic fl uctuations in historical change might
therefore contrast the dramatic population decline of the later Middle Ages
with the population growth of the thirteenth...
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Intimate Devotion: Recusant Martyrs and the Making of Relics in Post-Reformation England
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2014) 44 (3): 531–548.
Published: 01 September 2014
... the extreme nature
of his suffering, suggests that physical torment effects an ontological change
in the martyr’s body. Brian’s torture, Allen’s narrative intimates, transforms
his body from the ordinary to the superhuman. At one point, Brian even
believes that he has the stigmata (sig. F6v...
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Islam and Stereotypical Discourse in Medieval Castile and León
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2000) 30 (3): 479–504.
Published: 01 September 2000
.... As a
consequence of this southward expansion, Islam in Castile and León became
as much a matter of internal demographic control as an external threat. My
view is that representations of the Muslim in Old Spanish literature may be
more meaningful if they are interpreted...
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Blinded by the Light: Experience, Narrative, and Identity in Late Medieval and Early Modern Jaén
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2025) 55 (1): 73–96.
Published: 01 January 2025
... judgments on her appearance, Argote de Molina referred to her as “most beautifully dressed,” an addition that perhaps reflects changing expectations of the Virgin Mary. 30 And yet the Virgen de la Capilla was not nearly as dominant a figure in Jaén's religious culture as she would later be. Argote de...
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