A Dictionary Of Medieval English Weights And Measures

Author : Ronald Edward Zupko
Publisher : American Philosophical Society
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Reference
ISBN : 087169168X

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A Dictionary of Weights and Measures for the British Isles by Ronald Edward Zupko Pdf

The complexity of medieval & modern pre-metric weights & measures (W&M) in Britain presents an obstacle to scholarly research on Western European econ. history. The problem is: the approx. dimensions of many non-standardized measuring units, used by both the Crown & the regional & local markets, varied from time to time & from place to place; & the dimensions even of standard W&M used in any period are poorly understood. This book will clarify the confusion & bring a new focus to the field of metrology & a new understanding of the units. It includes: tables for rapid identification of all ruling English, Scottish, Irish, or Welsh sovereigns; current English Imperial, Amer. Customary, & metric units; & the basic equiv. for these W&M; & A Dict. of Brit. W&M.

Author : Ronald Edward Zupko
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 792 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:630766495

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A dictionary of medieval English weights and measures by Ronald Edward Zupko Pdf

Author : Ronald Edward Zupko
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Measurement
ISBN : WISC:89098588528

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A Dictionary of Medieval English Weights and Measures by Ronald Edward Zupko Pdf

Author : Albrecht Classen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 747 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2015-08-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110392920

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Handbook of Medieval Culture by Albrecht Classen Pdf

A follow-up publication to the Handbook of Medieval Studies, this new reference work turns to a different focus: medieval culture. Medieval research has grown tremendously in depth and breadth over the last decades. Particularly our understanding of medieval culture, of the basic living conditions, and the specific value system prevalent at that time has considerably expanded, to a point where we are in danger of no longer seeing the proverbial forest for the trees. The present, innovative handbook offers compact articles on essential topics, ideals, specific knowledge, and concepts defining the medieval world as comprehensively as possible. The topics covered in this new handbook pertain to issues such as love and marriage, belief in God, hell, and the devil, education, lordship and servitude, Christianity versus Judaism and Islam, health, medicine, the rural world, the rise of the urban class, travel, roads and bridges, entertainment, games, and sport activities, numbers, measuring, the education system, the papacy, saints, the senses, death, and money.

Author : Albrecht Classen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 2849 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110215588

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Handbook of Medieval Studies by Albrecht Classen Pdf

This interdisciplinary handbook provides extensive information about research in medieval studies and its most important results over the last decades. The handbook is a reference work which enables the readers to quickly and purposely gain insight into the important research discussions and to inform themselves about the current status of research in the field. The handbook consists of four parts. The first, large section offers articles on all of the main disciplines and discussions of the field. The second section presents articles on the key concepts of modern medieval studies and the debates therein. The third section is a lexicon of the most important text genres of the Middle Ages. The fourth section provides an international bio-bibliographical lexicon of the most prominent medievalists in all disciplines. A comprehensive bibliography rounds off the compendium. The result is a reference work which exhaustively documents the current status of research in medieval studies and brings the disciplines and experts of the field together.

Author : Martha Carlin,David Crouch
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812207569

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Lost Letters of Medieval Life by Martha Carlin,David Crouch Pdf

Everyday life in early thirteenth-century England is revealed in vivid detail in this riveting collection of correspondence of people from all classes, from peasants and shopkeepers to bishops and earls. The documents presented here include letters between masters and servants, husbands and wives, neighbors and enemies, and cover a wide range of topics: politics and war, going to fairs and going to law, attending tournaments and stocking a game park, borrowing cash and doing favors for friends, investigating adultery and building a windmill. While letters by celebrated people have long been known, the correspondence of ordinary people has not survived and has generally been assumed never to have existed in the first place. Martha Carlin and David Crouch, however, have discovered numerous examples of such correspondence hiding in plain sight. The letters can be found in manuscripts called formularies—the collections of form letters and other model documents that for centuries were used to teach the arts of letter-writing and keeping accounts. The writing-masters and their students who produced these books compiled examples of all the kinds of correspondence that people of means, members of the clergy, and those who handled their affairs might expect to encounter in their business and personal lives. Tucked among the sample letters from popes to bishops and from kings to sheriffs are examples of a much more casual, ephemeral kind of correspondence. These are the low-level letters that evidently were widely exchanged, but were often discarded because they were not considered to be of lasting importance. Two manuscripts, one in the British Library and the other in the Bodleian Library, are especially rich in such documents, and it is from these collections that Carlin and Crouch have drawn the documents in this volume. They are presented here in their first printed edition, both in the original Latin and in English translation, each document splendidly contextualized in an accompanying essay.

Author : Joseph Reese Strayer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 788 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Middle Ages
ISBN : UOM:39015016638754

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Dictionary of the Middle Ages by Joseph Reese Strayer Pdf

Arranged alphabetically, this volume contains articles on various aspects of life in the Middle Ages, from A.D. 500 to 1500 and covering a geographic area including the Latin West, the Slavic world, Asia Minor, the lands of the caliphate in the East, and the Muslim-Christian areas of North Africa.

Author : Ronald Edward Zupko
Publisher : American Philosophical Society
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Science
ISBN : 0871691868

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Revolution in Measurement by Ronald Edward Zupko Pdf

Zupco presents the legacies of the Middle Ages to the pioneering reformers of the Scientific Revolution; the monumental impact of math, physics, chemistry, astronomy, & technology on modern metrology; the creations, struggles, & successes of the Metric System; & the intense battles between metrics & customary metrologies that have waged since the end of the 18th cent. Includes insights into the personalities involved in metrological events: scientists, technologists, bureaucrats, ministers, members of scientific soc., & shows the impact of scientific experimentation & social revolutions. Includes a comprehensive biblio. of European metrology & the sources relevant to the underpinnings for this period in weights & measures history. Illus.

Author : Ronald Edward Zupko
Publisher : Madison : University of Wisconsin Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Science
ISBN : WISC:89042057760

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A Dictionary of English Weights and Measures by Ronald Edward Zupko Pdf

Author : Ben Dodds,Christian Drummond Liddy
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781843836841

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Commercial Activity, Markets and Entrepreneurs in the Middle Ages by Ben Dodds,Christian Drummond Liddy Pdf

Numerous aspects of the medieval economy are covered in this new collection of essays, from business fraud and changes in wages to the production of luxury goods. Long dominated by theories of causation involving class conflict and Malthusian crisis, the field of medieval economic history has been transformed in recent years by a better understanding of the process of commercialisation. Inrecognition of the important work in this area by Richard Britnell, this volume of essays brings together studies by historians from both sides of the Atlantic on fundamental aspects of the medieval commercial economy. From examinations of high wages, minimum wages and unemployment, through to innovative studies of consumption and supply, business fraud, economic regulation, small towns, the use of charters, and the role of shipmasters and peasants as entrepreneurs, this collection is essential reading for the student of the medieval economy. Contributors: John Hatcher, John Langdon, Derek Keene, John S. Lee, James Davis, Mark Bailey, Christine M. Newman, Peter L. Larson, Maryanne Kowaleski, Martha Carlin, James Masschaele, Christopher Dyer

Author : Buchanan Sharp
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107121829

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Famine and Scarcity in Late Medieval and Early Modern England by Buchanan Sharp Pdf

Buchanan Sharp examines governmental and crowd responses to famine, from the late Middle Ages through to the early modern era. This wide-ranging book will be of interest to academic researchers and graduate students studying the social, economic, cultural and political make-up of medieval and early modern England.

Author : Bruce M.S. Campbell
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2023-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000948370

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The Medieval Antecedents of English Agricultural Progress by Bruce M.S. Campbell Pdf

Until recently, historians tended to stress the perceived technological and ecological shortcomings of medieval agriculture. The ten essays assembled in this volume offer a contrary view. Based upon close documentary analysis of the demesne farms managed for and by lords, they show that, by 1300, in the most commercialized parts of England, production decisions were based upon relative factor costs and commodity prices. Moreover, when and where economic conditions were ripe and environmental and institutional circumstances favourable, medieval cultivators successfully secured high and ecologically sustainable levels of land productivity. They achieved this by integrating crop and livestock production into the sort of manure-intensive systems of mixed-husbandry which later underpinned the more celebrated output growth of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. If medieval agriculture failed to fulfill the production potential provided by wider adoption of such systems, this is more appropriately explained by the want of the kind of market incentives that might have justified investment, innovation, and specialization on the scale that characterized the so-called 'agricultural revolution', than either the lack of appropriate agricultural technology or the innate 'backwardness' of medieval cultivators.

Author : Ronald Edward Zupko
Publisher : American Philosophical Society
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0871691450

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Italian Weights and Measures from the Middle Ages to the Nineteenth Century by Ronald Edward Zupko Pdf

Unlike most metrological systems throughout W. Europe, the Italian developed during the Middle Ages (MA) & Early Modern era without any ref. to a commonly accepted set of nat.-ethnic standards. Italy, with its many kingdoms, duchies, communes, etc., was never able to attain any level of metrological standardization outside the confines of severely restricted, small, independent, political jurisdictions. Not until unification in 1871, were Italian weights & measures (W&M) given a totally nat. character. And it was the metric system, & not a conglomerate of units from the old, that finally accomplished the task. This book presents a quantitative compilation, synthesis, & analysis of the principal pre-metric W&M employed throughout Italy & in those areas controlled or influenced by Italy from the Later MA to the age of metrication in the later 19th cent. Tables.

Author : John Block Friedman,Kristen Mossler Figg
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 758 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351661324

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Routledge Revivals: Trade, Travel and Exploration in the Middle Ages (2000) by John Block Friedman,Kristen Mossler Figg Pdf

First published in 2000, Trade, Travel, and Exploration: An Encyclopedia covers the people, places, technologies, and intellectual concepts that contributed to trade, travel and exploration during the Middle Ages, from the years C.E. 525 to 1492. This comprehensive reference work contains entries on a large number of subjects, including familiar topics such as the voyages of Columbus and Marco Polo, and also information that is more difficult to find, for example, the traditions of travel among Muslim women and the influence of Viking travel on navigation and geographical knowledge. Bringing together more than 175 scholars from a variety of disciplines, it minimizes Eurocentric bias and offers extensive coverage of such topics as travel within Inner Asia, Mongol society, and the spread of Buddhism. Including an extensive map program and more than 125 illustrations, as well as bibliographies, a comprehensive index and "see also" references, Medieval Trade, Travel, and Exploration is a valuable reference guide for undergraduate and graduate students, scholars and also the general reader.

Author : Ronald Edward Zupko
Publisher : Madison : University of Wisconsin Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Reference
ISBN : STANFORD:36105009717252

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British Weights & Measures by Ronald Edward Zupko Pdf