Corpses, Evidence and Medical Knowledge in the Late Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-20
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Medical Knowledge ◽  
Late Middle Ages ◽  
Modern Age

scholarly journals Cerâmicas de Vila Franca de Xira nos séculos XV e XVI

2020 ◽  
pp. 1865-1878
Author(s):  
Eva Pires
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Ceramic Materials ◽  
Urban Center ◽  
Faunal Remains ◽  
Materials Analysis ◽  
Late Middle Ages ◽  
Modern Age ◽  
The Town

The archaeological intervention in the Ateneu Artístico Vilafranquense site in 2007, in the context of preventive archaeology, revealed data about the urban center of Vila Franca de Xira during the Late Middle Ages and Early Modern Age. The study of the entire set of materials from this intervention, made up of ceramics, faunal remains, glass, metals and lithic materials, allowed us to infer the domestic nature of this context comprised of the town population’s consumption remains. We present the final results of the ceramic materials analysis, which correspond to a total of 492 identifiable objects (NMI), mainly related to the 15th and 16th centuries.

scholarly journals Honour and Fighting Social Advancement in the Early Modern Age

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 139-181
Author(s):  
Jürg Gassmann
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Military Service ◽  
Late Middle Ages ◽  
Modern Age ◽  
Government Role ◽  
Social Advancement ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Individual

Abstract The article considers the importance of military service in social advancement, here understood as filling the role of “prince” in feudal law and thus participating in the government of an estate, in the transition from the Late Middle Ages to the Renaissance or Early Modern Age. In the context of a city burgher or a petty noble or knight advancing into a government role, did honour require that the individual have experience in fighting – in war, military organisation and leadership? How did mercenaries figure? What role, if any, did Fechtmeister, Fechtbücher, Fechtschulen or Kriegsbücher play?

scholarly journals Le calamità ambientali nel tardo medioevo europeo: realtà, percezioni, reazioni

2010 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
European Society ◽  
Environmental Disasters ◽  
Late Middle Ages ◽  
Modern Age ◽  
Points Of View

For some time historiography has set itself the objective of studying the ways in which European society in the late Middle Ages and the early Modern Age has related to environmental disasters, addressing the perceptions and the reactions, the strategies implemented by the governments, and the repercussions on the religious mentality. In this way it has identified a sphere of investigation that is an authentic multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary workshop, engaging historians of institutions, culture and mentality. At the conference held in San Miniato, Italian and European historians compared notes on this subject, addressing it from different points of view and taking into consideration different environmental contexts (the cities and the rivers, the mountain, the sea, Italy, France, Holland, etc.) and different viewpoints (those of the governments, the lay 'intellectuals', the men of religion, etc.).

Philip’s Empire

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mauricio Drelichman ◽  
Hans-Joachim Voth
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
The State ◽  
State Institutions ◽  
Late Middle Ages ◽  
Modern Age ◽  
Peace Dividend ◽  
The Future ◽  
History Of

This chapter provides a brief history of Castilian ascendancy from the late Middle Ages through the end of Philip II's reign. After the marriage of Prince Ferdinand of Aragon and Princess Isabella of Castile, a series of agreements—both tacit and explicit—recognized Castile's exclusive sovereignty over all territories conquered in the future. Ferdinand and Isabella shed many of the medieval structures of administration, modernizing the apparatus of the state and preparing it for the coming expansion. At the dawn of the early modern age, Ferdinand and Isabella had succeeded in giving their kingdoms a relatively strong monarchy and streamlined state institutions. Castile, where reforms were particularly deep and the peace dividend sizable, flourished economically.

scholarly journals Honour and Fighting Social Advancement in the Early Modern Age

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jürg Gassmann
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Military Service ◽  
Late Middle Ages ◽  
Modern Age ◽  
Government Role ◽  
Social Advancement ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Individual

The article considers the importance of military service in social advancement, here understood as filling the role of “prince” in feudal law and thus participating in the government of an estate, in the transition from the Late Middle Ages to the Renaissance or Early Modern Age. In the context of a city burgher or a petty noble or knight advancing into a government role, did honour require that the individual have experience in fighting – in war, military organisation and leadership? How did mercenaries figure? What role, if any, did Fechtmeister, Fechtbücher, Fechtschulen or Kriegsbücher play?

scholarly journals Funding and founding private charities: Leiden almshouses and their founders, 1450–1800

2012 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 199-239 ◽  
Author(s):  
HENK LOOIJESTEIJN
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Dutch Society ◽  
Lower Middle Class ◽  
Late Middle Ages ◽  
Modern Age ◽  
The Social ◽  
Dutch City

ABSTRACTThis article presents a case study of the founders of almshouses for the elderly in the Dutch city of Leiden during the late middle ages and the early modern age. First, an overview of Leiden's almshouses is given and an assessment made of their importance for the elderly. Next, a prosopography of Leiden's almshouse founders is presented, and reasons for founding almshouses discussed, focusing on religion, status, and the support of one's nearest and dearest. This is followed by an analysis of the social class of almshouse inhabitants. This article contends that via almshouse foundations the wealthy and privileged upper classes of Dutch society looked after (distant) family members, employees and other dependants in their patronage orbit, and that almshouses thus in practice served mostly as a respectable way out of open and disgraceful poverty for members of the lower middle class and the class of wage-dependants.

scholarly journals A Central Asian Helmet from the Northern Kazakhstan Regional Museum

2019 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 113-118
Author(s):  
L. A. Bobrov ◽  
D. M. Ismailov
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Copper Alloy ◽  
Late Middle Ages ◽  
Modern Age ◽  
Northern Kazakhstan ◽  
Central Asian ◽  
Diffi Cult ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Syr Darya

We describe a richly decorated iron helmet owned by the Northern Kazakhstan Regional Museum in Petropavlovsk. It consists of a low solid hemispherical crown, a slightly convex plate, made of copper alloy, with an opening for a (missing) tube in which the plume was inserted, a wide iron hoop, and a bipartite visor of the box type. The two last-named elements are covered with Arabic inscriptions inlaid in gold. Those on the hoop are verses from the Quran 2, 255–257, Al-Baqarah — The Cow. That on the “shield” of the visor is a prayer for protection, known as the “message of peace” read before a long journey or a diffi cult and dangerous enterprise, such as a battle. Such helmets were common in Central Asia between the late 16th and the mid-18th centuries. This specimen was likely manufactured in Mawarannahr, Xinjiang, or some town on the Syr Darya, for a high-ranking Uzbek, Uyghur, or Kazakh warrior. This accounts for the combination of a solid crown and a hoop with Arabic inscriptions with a box-type visor typical of helmets worn by Mongolian and Turkic nomads during the Late Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age. The closest parallels are found in the museums of Kazakhstan. Judging by the traces of repair and reconstruction, this helmet was used for a long time.

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