Early Modern economic and social history
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Readership All those interested in early modern history, the history of (informal) diplomacy, the history of cultural transfer, the history of collecting; art history of the early modern period; intellectual history. For more information... more
V Encuentro de Jóvenes Investigadores de la Fundación Española de Historia Moderna Sevilla 2019 A partir de que los virreinatos americanos iniciaron el comercio con Asia a través de las Filipinas, poco tardaron en aflorar recelos. La... more
This article explores the emergence and significance of printed game boards in Rome at the turn of the seventeenth century. These objects constitute an important and overlooked visual and material aspect of a pervasive culture of gaming... more
This most recent edition of the bibliography contains almost 21,200 titles in English (64%) and French (36%), with an introductory section on historiography. It deals with every aspect of Italian history and culture from the Late... more
The aim of this study is to collect evidence for textile recycling from a prehistoric and historic perspective. The basis are original textile finds and not, as might be expected, written or pictorial sources. The material presented here... more
Scholars have generally depicted kabbalists within an air of exclusivity. During the second quarter of the eighteenth century, however, a handful of Jewish mystics in Padua, led by Moses Hayim Luzzatto, opened their secret society to... more
Конференція «Запорозька Січ і українське козацтво». Історичні науки Випуск 66 16 17 Випуск 66 Конференція «Запорозька Січ і українське козацтво». Історичні науки УДК 94(477) «17/18» Сокирко О.Г. Рангові маєтності Генеральної артилерії... more
Summary Revised edition of an article originally published in 1986 in a journal for the history of textile industry. It deals with the policy of the Table of the Holy Spirit in 's-Hertogenbosch, the largest poor care board in this city,... more
This essay investigates the role of the glass business in shaping the identity of glassmakers in Renaissance Venice. First, it re-examines the debated issue of secretiveness, highlighting the role played by immigration and emigration, and... more
Computational flattening algorithms have been successfully applied to X-ray microtomography scans of damaged historical documents, but have so far been limited to scrolls, books, and documents with one or two folds. The challenge tackled... more
Summary Short article in Dutch about epidemics of plague and dysenteria around Breda in the periode 1660-1680. The original version dates from 1973 and was a result of my master thesis for a study in history at the University of Utrecht.... more
Early modern states faced numerous challenges in subsisting their prisoners of war, not least the problems of remitting them money for their subsistence, which had to pass across hostile borders. Examining how the British state achieved... more
Recension de : Laurence Fontaine, Le Marché. Histoire et usages d’une conquête sociale, Paris, Gallimard, 2014, 464 p., 22,90€.
Summary Minutes of aldermen and notaries. A source for entrepreneurial history in the early modern period. Most archives of small companies have gone lost, what remained are mostly archives of big and succesful enterprises, being not... more
A brief look into La Española's mid sixteenth-century Italian sugar entrepreneur Juan Soderin's properties (including his household slaves), financial situation, business activities, attitudes towards relatives, religious beliefs and... more
Hospital de Todos-os-Santos [All Saints Hospital] received since 1504 - the year the Regimento [rules of procedure] were approved - the abandoned or orphaned children of the city. Minors were placed in the Hospital wheel so this... more
In Felipo de Carrizales, titular protagonist of the novela ejemplar, " El celoso extremeño, " Cervantes created one of his most extravagant characters, a man who oscillates between the behavioral extremes of disorderly conduct in his... more
Entre 1701 et 1703, au début de la guerre de Succession espagnole, Henry Bentinck (1682-1726), vicomte Woodstock, et son gouverneur huguenot, Paul Rapin de Thoyras (1661-1725), entreprennent un voyage pédagogique – le Grand Tour – qui... more
Review of Allan Forrest, The Death of the French Atlantic: Trade, War, and Slavery in the Age of Revolution. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020
Este trabajo constituye una pequeña aportación para el estudio de las vinculaciones del crédito con los movimientos migratorios al final del Antiguo Régimen. En particular, se aborda el caso del crédito hipotecario de los emigrantes... more
ABSTRACT: Although armies grew larger during the seventeenth century, size estimates are often inaccurate. This article uses diverse sources to produce accurate troop counts for Electoral Saxony during the Thirty Years’ War (1618–48),... more
Did the collapse of the male-dominated wool industry and emergence of the female-dominant silk industry change how Florentine textile workers lived in and moved through their city? One fifth of mid-sixteenth-century Florentine households... more
Regulating relationships among strangers was a primary concern of the early modern world. Both the rediscovery of classical texts and new encounters between Europeans and Arabs, Asians, and Native Americans required a rethinking of the... more
The polemic surrounding the 1753 Jewish Naturalization Bill was one of the major public opinion campaigns in Britain in the eighteenth century, as well as the most significant event in the history of Britain's Jews between their... more
This article presents an overview of the long term trends in the trading patterns for salted herring in the area of the North Sea and the Baltic Sea and their hinterlands in the period of c. 1600-1850. The market is defined as ‘the... more