scholarly journals Estimating warfare-related civilian mortality in the early modern period: Evidence from the Low Countries, 1620–99

2021 ◽  
pp. 101425
Author(s):  
Bram van Besouw ◽  
Daniel R. Curtis
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Early Modern Period ◽  
Low Countries ◽  
Modern Period

Urban Literary Patronage in the Early Modern Low Countries: Public Festive Culture and Individual Authorship*

2011 ◽  
Vol 64 (1) ◽  
pp. 50-78 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samuel Mareel
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Early Modern Period ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Low Countries ◽  
Festive Culture ◽  
Modern Period

AbstractThis essay deals with the nature, background, and consequences of urban patronage for individual rhetoricians in the fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Low Countries. Although this phenomenon is most likely rooted in courtly practice, it is mainly because of the usefulness of rhetoricians in the context of urban public festivals that some of them received financial rewards from city authorities. My analysis shows how in the Low Countries urban festive culture and the oral dissemination of literary texts played an important, and heretofore largely neglected, role in the professionalization and individualization of authorship during the early modern period.

Markets for Land, Labor, and Capital in Northern Italy and the Low Countries, Twelfth to Seventeenth Centuries

2011 ◽  
Vol 41 (4) ◽  
pp. 503-531 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bas J. P. van Bavel
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Central Italy ◽  
Early Modern Period ◽  
Low Countries ◽  
North Central ◽  
Late Middle Ages ◽  
Modern Period ◽  
Urban Elites ◽  
Factor Markets

Comparative analysis of the markets for land, labor, and capital in north-central Italy and the Low Countries in the late Middle Ages and the early modern period reveals that urbanization in itself was not the crucial variable in the quality and effect of developing factor markets. More important was the counterweight offered in this process by territorial lords and rural interests to the influence of urban elites. Without this counterweight, urban elites could exploit factor markets to their own ends.

Women at Work: Governance and Financial Administration at the Court Beguinages of the Southern Low Countries in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

2018 ◽  
Vol 22 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 67-95
Author(s):  
Sarah Joan Moran
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Early Modern Period ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
Leadership Roles ◽  
Low Countries ◽  
Dutch Revolt ◽  
Modern Period ◽  
Monastic Communities ◽  
Female Monasticism ◽  
Financial Administration

Abstract From the thirteenth century through the nineteenth, the Court Beguinages, large semi-monastic communities for women called Beguines, were integral to urban life in the Catholic Low Countries. In the wake of the Dutch Revolt and reestablishment of Spanish rule in the Southern provinces from the mid-1580s, the Beguinages became increasingly aligned with the ideology of female monasticism, and particularly with the tradition of Mary and Martha: the mix of contemplative prayer and humble work that had traditionally been at the heart of tertiary convents and other active female congregations. While many Beguines did indeed make their livings from manual labor, the Beguinages also offered women of ambition unparalleled opportunities to take on leadership roles of great responsibility and authority. This essay examines the labor of Beguinage administration in the early modern period and situates the careers of Beguine leaders in their social and gendered contexts.

scholarly journals Exile and Linguistic Encounter: Early Modern English Convents in the Low Countries and France

2020 ◽  
Vol 73 (1) ◽  
pp. 132-164 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emilie K. M. Murphy
Keyword(s):  
Language Acquisition ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Language Barriers ◽  
Early Modern Period ◽  
Low Countries ◽  
Modern Period ◽  
Early Modern English ◽  
History Of

The history of religious migration and experience of exile in the early modern period has received a great deal of attention in recent years. Neglected within this scholarship, however, is sustained discussion of linguistic encounter within these often fraught transcultural and transnational interactions. This article breaks new ground by exploring the linguistic experiences of religious exiles in English convents founded in the Low Countries. Most women within English communities in exile were linguistically challenged; focusing on the creative ways these women subsequently negotiated language barriers sheds new light on female language acquisition and encounter during this period.

Was Plague an Exclusively Urban Phenomenon? Plague Mortality in the Seventeenth-Century Low Countries

2016 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 139-170 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel R. Curtis
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Early Modern Period ◽  
Low Countries ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Modern Period

Current scholarship reinforces the notion that by the early modern period, plague had become largely an urban concern in northwestern Europe. However, a data set comprised of burial information from the seventeenth-century Low Countries suggests that plague’s impact on the countryside was far more severe and pervasive than heretofore supposed.

scholarly journals Economic Inequality in Preindustrial Germany, ca. 1300 – 1850

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guido Alfani ◽  
Victoria Gierok ◽  
Felix Schaff
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Economic Inequality ◽  
Early Modern Period ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Low Countries ◽  
Working Paper ◽  
Modern Period ◽  
New Material

This article provides an overview of economic inequality in Germany from the fourteenth to the nineteenth century. It builds upon data produced by the German Historical School, which from the late nineteenth century pioneered inequality studies, and adds new archival information for selected areas. Inequality tended to grow during the early modern period, with an exception: the Thirty Years’ War (1618-48), together with the 1627-29 plague, seem to have caused a temporary but significant phase of inequality reduction. This is in contrast to other European areas, from Italy to the Low Countries, where during 1500-1800 inequality growth was monotonic. Some evidence of a drop in inequality is also found after the Black Death of 1348-49. Our findings contribute to deepen and nuance our knowledge of long-term inequality trends in preindustrial Europe, and offer new material to current debates on the determinants of inequality change in western societies, past and present. (Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality Working Paper)

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