This article studies a collection of data on economic inequality in fifteen towns in the
Southern and Northern Low Countries from the late Middle Ages until the end of the …

Objective To characterize patterns in the taxonomic diversity of parasites infecting the
population of Aalst, Belgium, between the 12th and 17th centuries. Materials 14 sediment …

From the twelfth and certainly from the thirteenth century onwards, a social group of artisans
with their own political and economic aspirations can be clearly delineated in Netherlandish …

Over the past few decades there has been a tendency to focus on the political nature and
cultural aspects of medieval collective action, rather than on poverty, inequality and other …

From the thirteenth until the 18th century, the county of Flanders knew a special citizen
status for rural residents. Country dwellers, normally residing under the jurisdiction and …

Episodes of dearth and famine can be discerned in documents from the Low Countries from
as early as the late Carolingian period. Though as with other parts of Europe at this time, we …

Why did landlords and farmers in commercialized, monetized economies prefer in-kind
payments over cash? In the urbanized core regions of late medieval Europe, urban …

Historians have observed a strong degree of divergence in population trends after the Black
Death across Europe. A comprehensive explanation for this divergence is still missing and …

This chapter offers a very broad survey of the transformation of diet in past 2500 years. Such
an ambitious venture tends to highlight spectacular changes, such as the so-called …

Denmark has been the focus of comparatively few paleodietary studies in Europe. This
dissertation focuses on three research topics related to urban and rural areas of Denmark …