Based on a case study of Marseille in the fourteenth century, this article argues that a foundational metaphor of medieval legal culture was publicity, even in the late medieval world where the written norms of Roman law ...

This study uses an extensive body of archival evidence from Latin-Christian sources to explore economic and social interactions between Provençal Jews and Christians. Evidence discussed in section one indicates that the ...

By studying the objects seized from debtors during the process of debt collection, this article seeks to understand the material culture of the poor in the city and region of Lucca in the fourteenth century. In point of ...

The judicial archives of Lucca in the fourteenth century have preserved many thousands of acts recording the final stages of the legal process of debt collection. Some of these acts concern the arrest and incarceration of ...

Historians, like all social scientists, must make assumptions about how the brain works. This essay suggests how some of the recent findings of the brain sciences might enhance our ability to understand or describe patterns ...

In later medieval Europe, a rising tide of wealth changed the material regime and, with it, the relationships that defined the matrix of persons and things. Some of our best evidence for the changes afoot in the era can ...