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The Substance of Shadows: Imagination and Credit Culture in Volpone
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2013) 43 (2): 369–391.
Published: 01 May 2013
...Brian Sheerin Discourses of economic exchange and of theatrical participation at the turn of the seventeenth century each began to rely on a rhetoric of “crediting”: both lending and theatergoing, that is, demand a trust in the circularity of expenditure, whereby what is given out may return...
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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
...Mark Bailey This article critiques the debate over the extent to which labor shortages caused by the Black Death and subsequent epidemics empowered women economically, and whether this had significant implications for overall demographic behavior and long‐term economic performance. Some historians...
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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
... encouraged single women to delay marriage, reducing marital fertility. This counterbalanced the encouragement of nuptiality stimulated by high male earnings, which helped balance population and economic growth. Juvenile earnings had little influence on family formation, challenging links suggested...
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Published: 01 September 2024
Figure 3. Time path of co-movements in population and family earnings. Note: Periods of economic growth (population and wages both grow together) and of recession (population and wages both fall together) appear as positive values above the horizontal axis; those positive values generated
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“Optimism of the Will”: Isabella Whitney and Utopia
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2009) 39 (2): 407–432.
Published: 01 May 2009
...Crystal Bartolovich Isabella Whitney's “Wyll” has been misrecognized generically because temporal utopias–of which her poem is the first instance–are not supposed to exist in the sixteenth century. Because women had a different relationship to the social and economic disruptions of emergent...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2012) 42 (3): 511–517.
Published: 01 September 2012
.... In this special issue of JMEMS , essays explore the ways in which monastic foundations are complexly imbricated in their local communities as well as in far-reaching political, economic, and textual systems. One of the aims of this issue is thus to use the topic of monasticism to rethink a variety of boundaries...
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Utopia, Ireland, and the Tudor Shock Doctrine: Spenser’s Vision of Capitalist Imperialism
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2012) 42 (2): 461–486.
Published: 01 May 2012
... of economic motive. This essay considers how A View redeploys utopian literary forms in the colonial setting so as to envision unimpeded, accelerated “primitive accumulation,” that violent process of dispossession that defines the agrarian and imperial origins of capitalism. While The Faerie Queene adopts...
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Relational Virtue: Anne Bradstreet, Edward Taylor, and Puritan Marriage
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2012) 42 (1): 201–224.
Published: 01 January 2012
... a distinctive form of relational virtue. The soteriological uncertainty that motivated the Puritans’ restless economic activity (as Weber so influentially discerned) and relentless introspection (evident in works like John Bunyan’s Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners ) thus also inspired a richly relational...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2013) 43 (3): 473–485.
Published: 01 September 2013
...Margaret A. Pappano; Nicole R. Rice As an economic category, artisans are typically bounded by two historical markers: on one side, the rise of urban centers in the medieval period, and on the other side, the reorganization of commodity production as a result of industrial capitalization...
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“The Sign of the Last”: Gender, Material Culture, and Artisanal Nostalgia in The Shoemaker’s Holiday
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2013) 43 (3): 573–597.
Published: 01 September 2013
... a shoe found in the Museum of London’s archaeological excavation of the Rose theatre where Dekker’s play was first performed, the essay argues that far from putting us in touch with a bygone artisan’s utopia, Dekker’s play stages a native industry transformed by economic expansion, yet unhobbled...
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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
...Astrid Giugni This article traces the response to the Elizabethan Poor Laws in two parishes in Jacobean London. The Elizabethan Poor Laws of 1598 and 1601 attempted to create a system of reliable poor relief in response to a series of late sixteenth‐century economic and population crises...
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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
...Ayesha Mukherjee English experiences of late‐Elizabethan economic crises coincided with national ambition to engage in global trade, marking a shift in the discourse of “needs” and “wants” in the English commonwealth. English travelers and traders documented in different modes of writing...
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Nothing Was Funny in the Late Middle Ages: The “Tale of Ryght Nought” and British Library, MS Egerton 1995
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2017) 47 (2): 221–253.
Published: 01 May 2017
...Lisa H. Cooper London, British Library, MS Egerton 1995 is a well-known miscellany of the late Middle Ages, filled like others of its kind with practical and didactic texts meant to assist its readers in their attempts at social, economic, and spiritual self-improvement. But it also contains...
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The Department of Hybrid Books: Thomas Milles between Manuscript and Print
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2015) 45 (3): 457–485.
Published: 01 September 2015
... and 1617, Milles published more than a dozen books outlining his schemes for fiscal reform, becoming one of Renaissance England's most prolific writers on economics. But virtually every surviving copy of every published text was customized after it left the press: Milles used manuscript marginalia...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2022) 52 (1): 119–145.
Published: 01 January 2022
... join its focus on economics to the implicit apocalypticism of its prophetic passages. The sense that lists can appear as both an ordered account and a disordered accumulation allows the lists of Wynnere and Wastoure to suggest the comforting bounds of an apocalyptic framework while performing its...
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Risky Business: Theological and Canonical Thought on Insurance from the Thirteenth to the Seventeenth Century
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2001) 31 (3): 607–658.
Published: 01 September 2001
... in Oxford and Paris, a philosophy in
which, through the use of mathematics and geometry, quantification
becomes crucial.3 Recent research seems to answer Le Goff’s open question.
Joel Kaye establishes a strong connection between thirteenth century theo-
logical thought on economics and the development...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2011) 41 (3): 659–661.
Published: 01 September 2011
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Deadline for submission of manuscripts: March 1, 2012
Medieval and Early Modern Artisan Culture
Edited by Margaret A. Pappano and Nicole R. Rice
Volume 43 / Number 3 / Fall 2013
As a specific economic category, artisans are typically bounded by two his-
torical markers: the rise of urban centers...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2012) 42 (1): 245–247.
Published: 01 January 2012
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Medieval and Early Modern Artisan Culture
Edited by Margaret A. Pappano and Nicole R. Rice
Volume 43 / Number 3 / Fall 2013
As a specific economic category, artisans are typically bounded by two his-
torical markers: the rise of urban centers in the medieval period, on one side...
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Call for Submissions
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2012) 42 (2): 507–509.
Published: 01 May 2012
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Volume 43 / Number 3 / Fall 2013
As a specific economic category, artisans are typically bounded by two his-
torical markers: the rise of urban centers in the medieval period, on one side,
and the reorganization of commodity production as a result of industrial
capitalization in the early modern...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2024) 54 (3): 445–456.
Published: 01 September 2024
..., and indeed precipitated, the demographic transition is necessary if we are to grasp the developments that followed, whether in the spheres of culture, politics, or economics. What might this look like in practice? Inevitably, research will take different forms in different disciplines, but demography can...
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