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Urban Society and Monastic Lordship in Reading, 1350-1600
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 232

Urban Society and Monastic Lordship in Reading, 1350-1600

Interrogates the standard view of turbulent and violent town-abbey relations through a combination of traditional and new research techniques.

Exploring the Evidence
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 267

Exploring the Evidence

Of necessity, historians of the late Middle Ages have to rely on an eclectic mix of sources, ranging from the few remaining medieval buildings, monuments, illuminated manuscripts and miscellaneous artefacts, to a substantial but often uncatalogued body of documentary material, much of it born of the medieval administrator's penchant for record keeping. Exploring this evidence requires skills in lateral thinking and interpretation - qualities which are manifested in this volume. Employing the copious legal records kept by the English Crown, one essay reveals the thinking behind exceptions to pardons sold by successive kings, while another, using clerical taxation returns, adds colour to conte...

The Fruit of Her Hands
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 296

The Fruit of Her Hands

In the thriving urban economies of late thirteenth-century Catalonia, Jewish and Christian women labored to support their families and their communities. The Fruit of Her Hands examines how gender, socioeconomic status, and religious identity shaped how these women lived and worked. Sarah Ifft Decker draws on thousands of notarial contracts as well as legal codes, urban ordinances, and Hebrew responsa literature to explore the lived experiences of Jewish and Christian women in the cities of Barcelona, Girona, and Vic between 1250 and 1350. Relying on an expanded definition of women’s work that includes the management of household resources as well as wage labor and artisanal production, th...

Examining Identity
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 210

Examining Identity

This series [pushes] the boundaries of knowledge and [develops] new trends in approach and understanding. ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW

Seeking Sanctuary
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 232

Seeking Sanctuary

In premodern English law, felons had the right to seek sanctuary in a church or ecclesiastical precinct. It is commonly held that this practice virtually died out after the medieval period, but Shannon McSheffrey highlights its resurgence under the Tudor regime and shows how the issue lay at the intersection between law, religion, and culture.

Transitions to Capitalism in Early Modern Europe
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 393

Transitions to Capitalism in Early Modern Europe

Revised, updated and expanded, this second edition analyzes the structures and practices of European economies within a global context.

Friends, Neighbours, Sinners
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 295

Friends, Neighbours, Sinners

Friends, Neighbours, Sinners shows the crucial role of religious difference in shaping English culture and society after 1689. By throwing into relief the cultural impact of England's unstable religious settlement, it highlights the centrality of religious difference to understanding social and cultural change after 1689.

Breaking the Mold
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 336

Breaking the Mold

The new path for economic development that India must create The whole world has a stake in India’s future, and that future hinges on whether India can develop its economy and deliver for its population—now the world’s largest—while staying democratic. India’s economy has overtaken the United Kingdom’s to become the fifth-largest in the world, but it is still only one-fifth the size of China’s, and India’s economic growth is too slow to provide jobs for millions of its ambitious youth. Blocking India’s current path are intense global competition in low-skilled manufacturing, increasing protectionism and automation, and the country’s majoritarian streak in politics. In Bre...

Conversion and Islam in the Early Modern Mediterranean
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 235

Conversion and Islam in the Early Modern Mediterranean

The topic of religious conversion into and out of Islam as a historical phenomenon is mired in a sea of debate and misunderstanding. It has often been viewed as the permanent crossing of not just a religious divide, but in the context of the early modern Mediterranean also political, cultural and geographic boundaries. Reading between the lines of a wide variety of sources, however, suggests that religious conversion between Christianity, Judaism and Islam often had a more pragmatic and prosaic aspect that constituted a form of cultural translation and a means of establishing communal belonging through the shared, and often contested articulation of religious identities. The chapters in this...

Household Goods and Good Households in Late Medieval London
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 336

Household Goods and Good Households in Late Medieval London

Household Goods and Good Households in Late Medieval London looks at how increased consumption in the aftermath of the Black Death reconfigured long-held gender roles and changed the domestic lives of London's merchants and artisans for years to come.