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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2024) 54 (3): 493–528.
Published: 01 September 2024
... about structural changes in women’s work during the sixteenth century. [email protected] Copyright © 2024 by Duke University Press 2024 England Black Death European Marriage Pattern women’s work economic opportunity The first outbreak of the Black Death between 1347 and 1353...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2024) 54 (3): 529–558.
Published: 01 September 2024
... economies. Indeed, economic growth coincided with increased demand for child labor. Protoindustry presented new work opportunities for both women and children. Some historians have argued that wage-earning opportunities in domestic manufacturing ended children’s dependence on parents and promoted earlier...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2010) 40 (2): 299–323.
Published: 01 May 2010
..., and pilots: the political and economic
opportunity afforded by the limits of scientific knowledge.13 Examining the
role of individual and imperial interests in the development of early mod-
ern scientific convention helps to historicize the contemporary scholarly
use of science and its history...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2024) 54 (3): 637–668.
Published: 01 September 2024
..., several of the themes that have figured prominently in the aggregative historiography of demographic change, living standards, and economic growth are interrogated in the context of this one local community deeply rooted in the midland landscape: first, changing occupational structure and opportunities...
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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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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2007) 37 (1): 75–95.
Published: 01 January 2007
... and conquests undertaken by Spain and
Portugal. English elites initiated a wide range of economic projects and
transactions that connected England to foreign lands in crucial new ways,
and they recruited the labor and leaders needed to carry out their plans.
Many of the earliest projects failed (most...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2002) 32 (3): 543–570.
Published: 01 September 2002
... singles out “our silkes from Spaine” as a particularly beneficial
commodity (B3v). Just as the Merchant Adventurers, the guild that exported
domestic cloth to markets abroad, understood the impossibility of stopping
the importation of foreign cloth, they also saw the economic opportunity in
regulating...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2010) 40 (3): 497–526.
Published: 01 September 2010
... only coincides with new economic
opportunities: “That the problems of a swiftly changing economic environ-
ment should have burst on Europe at a moment when it was torn by religious
dissensions more acute than ever before, may perhaps be counted as not least
among the tragedies of its history...
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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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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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“The Sign of the Last”: Gender, Material Culture, and Artisanal Nostalgia in The Shoemaker’s Holiday
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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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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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2009) 39 (3): 597–617.
Published: 01 September 2009
... pursued in different political
and social periods and contexts.
Critical approaches to sumptuary law
The subject of luxury regulation invites a variety of critical approaches that
attend to the symbolic, economic, and social issues addressed by the laws.
Sumptuary laws regulated...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2015) 45 (2): 343–365.
Published: 01 May 2015
... that
they express in private.
The opportunity to assess the distinctions between public and pri-
vate discourses is necessarily difficult in a performance-text where all inter-
actions between characters, with the exception of the occasional aside, take
place in a highly public arena. For the purpose...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2022) 52 (1): 147–173.
Published: 01 January 2022
... as a result (119). 42 Anna Beskin, “The Birds of Aemilia Lanyer's ‘The Description of Cooke-Ham,’ ” Modern Philology 114, no. 3 (2017): 524–51, at 530–31. Copyright © 2022 by Duke University Press 2022 genre of English country house poem rhyming couplet economic management lordly...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2009) 39 (3): 483–509.
Published: 01 September 2009
... clothes Florentines wore
were as much a visual reminder of the sophisticated network of economic
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and social relationships they navigated throughout their daily lives as an
indicator of their financial, cultural, or aesthetic...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2008) 38 (3): 403–412.
Published: 01 September 2008
... this fear, Kuriyama argues, we have not only lost contact with
an early tradition that once shaped our perceptions of the body, we have also
lost purchase on nineteenth- and twentieth-century cultural transformations
(in medicine, in economics) of the notion of waste.
At the end of his essay...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2000) 30 (2): 275–308.
Published: 01 May 2000
... were lawyers), Rastell
attended the Middle Temple in London, and then returned home to Coven-
try to practice, where he succeeded his father as coroner. Rastell’s immersion
in local affairs is significant, for Coventry was a town in serious economic
trouble due to the combined effects...
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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 (2021) 51 (2): 321–365.
Published: 01 May 2021
..., with pentimenti showing through, also affords historians of early Netherlandish painting the opportunity to engage disciplinary change by rethinking the impulse toward prioritization. Proceeding as a study of Goes's “first painting,” this essay critically examines the two methods of assigning order...
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