Pub Date : 2024-05-21DOI: 10.1017/s0268416024000055
Cristina Nogueira da Silva
{"title":"Mariana P. Candido, Wealth, Land, and Property in Angola. A History of Dispossession, Slavery and Inequality (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022). Pages xiv + 323 + figures 17 + tables 12.","authors":"Cristina Nogueira da Silva","doi":"10.1017/s0268416024000055","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0268416024000055","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45309,"journal":{"name":"Continuity and Change","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2024-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141115895","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-03-27DOI: 10.1017/s0268416024000043
Niall G. MacKenzie
{"title":"F. Barry, Industry and Policy in Independent Ireland, 1922–1972 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023). Pages xiv + 232 + 65 tables. £49.00 hardback.","authors":"Niall G. MacKenzie","doi":"10.1017/s0268416024000043","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0268416024000043","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45309,"journal":{"name":"Continuity and Change","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2024-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140377805","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-03-22DOI: 10.1017/s026841602400002x
Federico Gálvez Gambero
{"title":"D. Menjot, M. Caesar, F. Garnier and P. Verdés Pijuan (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Public Taxation in Medieval Europe (London and New York: Routledge, 2023). Pages xiv + 497. £152.00 hardback.","authors":"Federico Gálvez Gambero","doi":"10.1017/s026841602400002x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s026841602400002x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45309,"journal":{"name":"Continuity and Change","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2024-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140217355","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-03-22DOI: 10.1017/s0268416023000309
Sarah Fox, Margaret Brazier
This article explores historical and legal approaches to past society, asking what each has to offer the other. Using early modern midwives’ oaths as a case study, it examines the extent to which the law shapes everyday life and society, and vice versa allowing us to situate early modern midwives at the intersection of a number of important and competing seventeenth-century institutions including state, church, society, and profession. We argue that a historico-legal approach to the practices of seventeenth-century midwives demands a reconsideration of the historiography of medical ethics and of the professions more broadly. It situates midwives as holders of formal office, and agents of the emergent early modern state and encourages reflection on the nature of ethical practice, and professional regulation within their social, cultural, and political context.
{"title":"Midwives’ oaths: everyday life and the law in seventeenth-century England","authors":"Sarah Fox, Margaret Brazier","doi":"10.1017/s0268416023000309","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0268416023000309","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This article explores historical and legal approaches to past society, asking what each has to offer the other. Using early modern midwives’ oaths as a case study, it examines the extent to which the law shapes everyday life and society, and vice versa allowing us to situate early modern midwives at the intersection of a number of important and competing seventeenth-century institutions including state, church, society, and profession. We argue that a historico-legal approach to the practices of seventeenth-century midwives demands a reconsideration of the historiography of medical ethics and of the professions more broadly. It situates midwives as holders of formal office, and agents of the emergent early modern state and encourages reflection on the nature of ethical practice, and professional regulation within their social, cultural, and political context.","PeriodicalId":45309,"journal":{"name":"Continuity and Change","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2024-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140214216","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-03-12DOI: 10.1017/s0268416024000018
Grabiel Brea-Martínez
{"title":"Gregory Hanlon, Death and Control in the West, 1500–1800: Sex Ratios at Baptism in Italy, France and England (New York: Routledge, 2023). Pages XIX + 307 + 18 Figures + 65 Graphs + 2 Maps. $39.16 paperback.","authors":"Grabiel Brea-Martínez","doi":"10.1017/s0268416024000018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0268416024000018","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45309,"journal":{"name":"Continuity and Change","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2024-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140248473","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-02-15DOI: 10.1017/s0268416023000322
A. T. Brown, Bridget Cox
Historians have long used the archives of major institutions to shed light on medieval society, but in more recent decades the focus has turned towards the proliferation of legal documentation possessed by those lower down the social order and the increasing penetration of legal processes into their everyday lives. Yet, in recapturing this world, there is a danger that we take for granted the immense documentary power of a large institutional repository. This article follows several legal conflicts across the fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries involving the monks of Durham Priory to demonstrate the extent of this archival culture, showing how they turned to their vast array of documentary evidence for information about those who had incurred their wrath. Using their archives, they traced the descent of holdings, the offices held by key individuals, and previous payments in account rolls, all in a bid to demonstrate their rights, the ‘abuses’ of officials, and to counter legal opposition. Not content, the monks then compiled this evidence into an alternative narrative of events that questioned previous legal proceedings and ceremonies, constructing an institutional memory that saw contradictory documentation as ‘entirely most falsely forged’.
{"title":"Institutional memory and legal conflict in the Old Borough of Durham, 1300–1450","authors":"A. T. Brown, Bridget Cox","doi":"10.1017/s0268416023000322","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0268416023000322","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Historians have long used the archives of major institutions to shed light on medieval society, but in more recent decades the focus has turned towards the proliferation of legal documentation possessed by those lower down the social order and the increasing penetration of legal processes into their everyday lives. Yet, in recapturing this world, there is a danger that we take for granted the immense documentary power of a large institutional repository. This article follows several legal conflicts across the fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries involving the monks of Durham Priory to demonstrate the extent of this archival culture, showing how they turned to their vast array of documentary evidence for information about those who had incurred their wrath. Using their archives, they traced the descent of holdings, the offices held by key individuals, and previous payments in account rolls, all in a bid to demonstrate their rights, the ‘abuses’ of officials, and to counter legal opposition. Not content, the monks then compiled this evidence into an alternative narrative of events that questioned previous legal proceedings and ceremonies, constructing an institutional memory that saw contradictory documentation as ‘entirely most falsely forged’.","PeriodicalId":45309,"journal":{"name":"Continuity and Change","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2024-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139776171","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-02-15DOI: 10.1017/s0268416023000322
A. T. Brown, Bridget Cox
Historians have long used the archives of major institutions to shed light on medieval society, but in more recent decades the focus has turned towards the proliferation of legal documentation possessed by those lower down the social order and the increasing penetration of legal processes into their everyday lives. Yet, in recapturing this world, there is a danger that we take for granted the immense documentary power of a large institutional repository. This article follows several legal conflicts across the fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries involving the monks of Durham Priory to demonstrate the extent of this archival culture, showing how they turned to their vast array of documentary evidence for information about those who had incurred their wrath. Using their archives, they traced the descent of holdings, the offices held by key individuals, and previous payments in account rolls, all in a bid to demonstrate their rights, the ‘abuses’ of officials, and to counter legal opposition. Not content, the monks then compiled this evidence into an alternative narrative of events that questioned previous legal proceedings and ceremonies, constructing an institutional memory that saw contradictory documentation as ‘entirely most falsely forged’.
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Pub Date : 2024-02-13DOI: 10.1017/s0268416023000358
Mauro Rota
{"title":"Carmen Sarasúa (ed.), Salarios que la ciudad paga al campo. Las nodrizas de las inclusas en los siglos XVIII y XIX (Alacant: Publicaciones de la Universitat d'Alacant, 2021). Pages 512. 22€ hardback.","authors":"Mauro Rota","doi":"10.1017/s0268416023000358","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0268416023000358","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45309,"journal":{"name":"Continuity and Change","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2024-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139780552","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-02-13DOI: 10.1017/s026841602300036x
Lloyd Bonfield
{"title":"Amy Harris, Being single in Georgian England: families, households, and the unmarried (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023). Pages xii–xxi, 1-247 + 8 figures and plates, £70.00 hardback.","authors":"Lloyd Bonfield","doi":"10.1017/s026841602300036x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s026841602300036x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45309,"journal":{"name":"Continuity and Change","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2024-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139841155","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-02-13DOI: 10.1017/s026841602300036x
Lloyd Bonfield
{"title":"Amy Harris, Being single in Georgian England: families, households, and the unmarried (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023). Pages xii–xxi, 1-247 + 8 figures and plates, £70.00 hardback.","authors":"Lloyd Bonfield","doi":"10.1017/s026841602300036x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s026841602300036x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45309,"journal":{"name":"Continuity and Change","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2024-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139781450","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}