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The Routledge Handbook of Medieval Rural Life brings together the
latest research on peasantry in medieval Europe. The aim is to
place peasants - as small-scale agricultural producers - firmly at
the centre of this volume, as people with agency, immense skill and
resilience to shape their environments, cultures and societies.
This volume examines the changes and evolutions within village
societies across the medieval period, over a broad chronology and
across a wide geography. Rural structures, families and hierarchies
are examined alongside tool use and trade, as well as the impact of
external factors such as famine and the Black Death. The
contributions offer insights into multidisciplinary research,
incorporating archaeological as well as landscape studies alongside
traditional historical documentary approaches across widely
differing local and regional contexts across medieval Europe. This
book will be an essential reference for scholars and students of
medieval history, as well those interested in rural, cultural and
social history.
This book explores the experience of childhood and adolescence in
later medieval English rural society from 1250 to 1450. Hit by
major catastrophes - the Great Famine and then a few decades later
the Black Death - this book examines how rural society coped with
children left orphaned, and land inherited by children and
adolescents considered too young to run their holdings. Using
manorial court rolls, accounts and other documents, Miriam Muller
looks at the guardians who looked after the children, and the
chattels and lands the children brought with them. This book
considers not just rural concepts of childhood, and the training
and schooling young peasants received, but also the nature of
supportive kinship networks, family structures and the roles of
lordship, to offer insights into the experience of childhood and
adolescence in medieval villages more broadly.
The objective of this study is to understand the perceptions,
beliefs, and influencing factors that may lead to different
fertility outcomes among young women in Nicaragua, a country with
one of the highest adolescent fertility rates in Latin America. The
results are based on qualitative data collected in urban areas.
Miriam Muller reveals that two structural constraints affect
women's choices and their capacity to actively participate in
defining their life paths: poverty and traditional gender
norms.This book contributes to the discussion of intergenerational
transmission of poverty by disentangling the mechanisms behind
decision-making around teenage motherhood and by describing the
consequences of these decisions.
Radical ideologies may manifest differently at first, but they do
follow a similar logic: truth claims, promises of salvation and a
unifying common enemy. In Yemen's transition process today, the
secessionist movement Al-Hirak has summoned the spirit of South
Yemen, the only Marxist state in Arabia. This book meticulously
describes how East Germany supported the implantation of this alien
ideology in Yemen through its policy of "Socialist state- and
nation-building". In the same breath, the analysis captures the
GDR's activities in the Middle East and their vital role in
Moscow's Cold War strategy. Last but least, the study provides one
of the few compact overviews of East German foreign policy in the
English language of today.
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