The Late Middle Ages, 1350–1530

2021 ◽  
pp. 231-273
Author(s):  
Stephen Mileson ◽  
Stuart Brookes
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Social Space ◽  
Economic Change ◽  
Black Death ◽  
Geographical Mobility ◽  
Late Middle Ages ◽  
Shared Stories ◽  
Great Divergence ◽  
Local Traditions

The period after the Black Death saw a dramatic demographic reversal and significant structural economic change, including the withdrawal of lords from direct farming. Vale and Chilterns remained distinctive, but in some links were strengthened and experiential differences were reduced. This chapter examines how perceptions of village space were affected by a steepening of village hierarchy and by increased geographical mobility. Great divergence between settlements is revealed in terms of forms and possibly strength of engagement and attachment. The character of social space in villages is examined in part through an innovative study of the reach of church bells, based on fieldwork carried out during the project. Field names are used to uncover shared stories and local traditions, which may have been cultivated and used especially by senior tenants.

In Praise of Spurious Saints: The Missae Floruit egregiis by Pipelare and La Rue

1991 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 163-220 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Jennifer Bloxam
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Eleventh Century ◽  
Roman Catholic ◽  
Roman Catholic Church ◽  
Late Middle Ages ◽  
Profound Influence ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Compositional Technique ◽  
Local Traditions

The cult of saints exerted a profound influence on the liturgy and plainsong of the Roman Catholic church in the later Middle Ages, as individual churches evolved local traditions of liturgy and plainsong to celebrate saints held dear by certain communities. Sacred polyphonic composition during this period also reflects the stimulation to musical creativity engendered by the veneration of special saints. This study explores a particularly fine example of the intersection of liturgy, chant, and polyphony inspired by the adoration of saints in the late Middle Ages. The introduction of a new local saint, Livinus, to the liturgy of the Flemish city of Ghent during the eleventh century provides the starting point for the investigation, which introduces a newly-discovered body of plainsong in his honor, notably a rhymed Office, preserved in manuscripts spanning the twelfth through the sixteenth centuries. From this corpus of plainsong the composer Mattheus Pipelare (c. 1450-c. 1515?) selected no fewer than sixteen chants for inclusion in his four-voiced Missa Floruit egregiis infans Livinus; the identification of these heretofore unknown cantus firmi prompts a fresh look at the provenance, style and structure of this remarkable Mass, which proves to be a musical historia akin to other multiple cantus firmus Masses of the period, notably those by Jacob Obrecht. The essay concludes with an examination of the Missa de Sancto Job by Pierre de la Rue, whose debt to Pipelare's Missa de Sancto Livino is elucidated through a discussion of its background and compositional technique.

scholarly journals Manual Labour and Biblical Reading in Late Medieval France

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 277-297
Author(s):  
Margriet Hoogvliet
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Social Space ◽  
Reading Practices ◽  
Manual Work ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Late Middle Ages ◽  
Medieval France ◽  
French Speaking ◽  
Private Homes

Abstract This article discusses artisans and people doing manual work in the French-speaking areas of Western Europe who owned and read the Bible or parts of its text during the late Middle Ages and the early sixteenth century. The historical evidence is based on post-mortem inventories from Amiens, Tournai, Lyon, and the Toulouse area. These documents show that Bibles were present in the private homes of artisans, some of them well-to-do, but others quite destitute. This development was probably related to a shift in the cultural representation of manual work in the same period: from a divine punishment into a social space of religion. The simple artisan life of the holy family, as imagined based upon the Gospel text, and their religious reading practices were recommended as an example to follow by both lay people and clerics.

The road to the Industrial Revolution: hypotheses and conjectures about the medieval origins of the ‘European Miracle’

2008 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 337-359 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan Luiten van Zanden
Keyword(s):  
Interest Rates ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Market Integration ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Market Exchange ◽  
The Road ◽  
Late Medieval Period ◽  
Late Middle Ages ◽  
Great Divergence

AbstractThe article uses various ways of measuring the efficiency of institutions regulating market exchange, such as interest rates, the skill premium, and the level of market integration, to try to answer the question about the quality of institutions in the different parts of Eurasia in the centuries before the ‘Great Divergence’. It appears that Western Europe, from as early as the late medieval period, had a relatively well-developed set of institutions. By contrast, South and Southeast Asian institutions were much less geared towards well-functioning markets. However, Japan and China in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries developed institutions that were relatively efficient, and resulted in relatively high levels of commercial exchange. A number of hypotheses are then reviewed that may help to explain a European head start dating from the late Middle Ages.

scholarly journals The Black Death in Iran, according to Iranian Historical Accounts from the Fourteenth through Fifteenth Centuries

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 56-71
Author(s):  
Ahmad Fazlinejad ◽  
Farajollah Ahmadi
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Geographical Area ◽  
Historical Event ◽  
Black Death ◽  
Historical Sources ◽  
Late Middle Ages ◽  
Historical Accounts ◽  
Geographical Scope

AbstractThe Black Death, as a unique historical event, has long attracted the attention of medieval and medical historians both in terms of the length of the pandemic and its geographical scope. Nevertheless, historical studies on the Black Death have often neglected the role it played in Iran. The present paper examines Iranian historical accounts of events pertaining to the pandemic in the late Middle Ages and its consequent outbreak in Iran. Its findings can open new frontiers for understanding the broad geographical area impacted by plague and, specifically, its spread in Iran. This paper attempts also to highlight the value of Iranian historical sources from the fourteenth through sixteenth centuries for understanding better the outbreak of the plague.

The church in the West Highlands in the late middle ages

2003 ◽  
Vol 54 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-46
Author(s):  
A. D. M. Barrell
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
The West ◽  
Late Middle Ages ◽  
The Church
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