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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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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2024) 54 (3): 445–456.
Published: 01 September 2024
... Oldenburg, both focus on London, the central hub of the English population and economy. Giugni’s article plunges into the fraught world of the urban parishes to investigate the impact of demographic and institutional change on conceptions of charity. Taking as case studies John Downham and William Gouge...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2024) 54 (3): 529–558.
Published: 01 September 2024
... late ages, and celibacy was relatively common, which reduced demographic pressure while enabling responsiveness to economic conditions. 31 But how did women’s agency and sensitivity to their own economic opportunities impact nuptiality? While women have been pivotal in theories of the decision...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2024) 54 (3): 493–528.
Published: 01 September 2024
... plague had a positive or negative long-term impact on levels of income per head and income inequality in a particular society. 2 For example, demographic decline was associated with the dissolution of serfdom in some areas of the continent, thereby freeing up markets for land and waged labor...
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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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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2024) 54 (3): 637–668.
Published: 01 September 2024
... that enriched understandings of the social consequences of population increase in the sixteenth century and its stagnation in the seventeenth. Over time, however, the two methodologies have become estranged. This essay attempts a reunification of the two subdisciplines by offering a microhistory of demographic...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2022) 52 (2): 335–360.
Published: 01 May 2022
... supplant other prosopographic modes, especially those that seek to reveal the effects of social and demographic forces on past cultures; indeed, in some cases, network analysis threatens to obscure the impact of class and birth by depicting intellectual history primarily as a series of freely chosen...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2024) 54 (3): 593–615.
Published: 01 September 2024
... relief. 3 Responding to the economic crises driven by bad harvests, plague years, and growing inflation that pushed these demographic shifts, the Elizabethan Poor Laws of 1598 and 1601 attempted to address the problem of providing reliable poor relief. In doing so, they also formally shifted...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2020) 50 (2): 431–453.
Published: 01 May 2020
... demonstrates, the occupational characteristics of particular professions also featured strongly in ballad dis- course.3 However, while Hailwood usefully uncovers how early modern English ballads both reflected and impacted the occupational identities of members of the guilded professions blacksmiths, tailors...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2025) 55 (1): 73–96.
Published: 01 January 2025
... with Granada and the subsequent encounter with the Americas, with its attendant economic and demographic restructuring of Spain, had similarly impacted many of its peers. 45 The notion of “Reconquista” as a historic process was born through the work of the generations of historians writing around the turn...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2009) 39 (3): 459–481.
Published: 01 September 2009
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DOI 10.1215/10829636-2009-001 © 2009 by Duke University Press
Renaissance courts were in constant flux as nobles moved in and out of a
ruler’s household.7
These developments had an enormous impact on the material cul-
ture of the age, which witnessed an unrestrained accumulation of goods...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2008) 38 (1): 15–34.
Published: 01 January 2008
... designs, military projects, and ques-
tions more properly dynastic were framed in light of descriptions of a country
as a whole including its social and economic character. Ambassadors reported
on demographics, assets, resources, commerce, administrative systems, and
other aspects of the countries...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2000) 30 (2): 375–399.
Published: 01 May 2000
... demographic
(and I obviously include myself within its bounds), but at the same time it
must also be admitted that “most of us” therefore only refers to the tiniest
portion of Donne’s actual historical readership. Given that Marcus is per-
forming an analysis of Donne’s 1633 Poems, then, one obvious...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2007) 37 (1): 9–55.
Published: 01 January 2007
... on three sides by land. These surrounding lands,
from Anatolia to Egypt, are not, however, the focus of the map. The sea is a
canvas upon which an island, a fleet, and a legend are displayed. The legend
provides the position, ecology, and demographics of the island of Cyprus: its
weather, produce...
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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...
