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	Historical Essays: Childhood in Medieval England (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Medieval law-makers tended to place the boundary between childhood and adulthood at puberty, coventionally 12 for girls and 14 for boys.
		Medieval childhood was a rich and varied state, since children varied from one another as much as adults did.
		The concentration of historians on adults in the middle ages does insufficient justice to the fact that about one third of the population was usually under the age of 14.
	www.pitt.edu /~mjg4/medieval_child.htm (1924 words)

	Medieval demography - Academic Kids (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Medieval demography is demography in the Middle Ages.
		Reasons for this expansion and colonization include an improving climate known as the Medieval warm period; the end of barbarian raids by Vikings, Magyars and Saracens; reforms of the Church in the 11th century and the rise of Feudalism, which brought increased social stability and thus more mobility.
		The science of medieval demography is a fairly new one, but one that has received considerable attention lately, in particular with interest in the social issues of the Middle Ages in the later part of the 20th century.
	www.academickids.com.cob-web.org:8888 /encyclopedia/index.php/Medieval_demography (1566 words)

	Demography - Psychology Wiki - A Wikia wiki
		Demography is the study of human population dynamics.
		The term demographics is often used erroneously for demography, but refers rather to selected population characteristics as used in marketing or opinion research, or the demographic profiles used in such research.
		Demography may rely on the use of large amounts of data, including census returns and vital statistics registers, or incorporate survey data using indirect estimation techniques.
	psychology.wikia.com /wiki/Demography (1229 words)

	medieval resource page - medieval castles
		Medieval is the modern English spelling, used in normal discourse in England and elsewhere.
		Medieval was originally a pejorative description, and as such it has taken on broader meanings that usually impart some kind of value judgement, such as things that are old, "byzantine", "gothic", crude, heavy, harsh, or dark in nature.
		Luxembourg City is the capital of a tiny duchy bordered on the east by the Moselle River and surrounded by Belgium, France and Germany--while Sibiu is a medieval city shrouded in the mists of Transylvania.
	www.bizhisto.com /Lo-to-Po/medieval.php (3488 words)

	medieval art - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about medieval art (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		An English medieval painting of the lord of the manor in his garden.
		Most of the art of this period was in the form of illuminated manuscripts, carvings, and wall paintings.
		The Romanesque style was the first truly international style of medieval times, superseded by Gothic in the late 12th century.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com.cob-web.org:8888 /medieval+art (1334 words)

	Medieval demography - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Medieval demography is the study of human demography in Europe during the Middle Ages.
		In many ways, demography was one of the most crucial factors of historical change throughout the Middle Ages.
		As well, some of the largest and most important sites are still occupied and can not be investigated, thus limiting the archaeological record to the more peripheral regions, for example early Middle Ages Viking burials at Sutton Hoo, in East Anglia in England, for which otherwise no records exist.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Medieval_demography (1599 words)

	SULAIR : Medieval Studies : Demography, Social & Economic Matters
		Handbook of medieval sexuality / edited by Vern L. Bullough and James A. Brundage, 1996.
		For the topics women, sexuality, and gender, Medieval Feminist Index offers journal articles, book reviews, and essays in books about women.
		Medieval women and the sources of medieval history, edited by Joel T. Rosenthal, c1990, Lane Room HQ1143.M44.
	www-sul.stanford.edu /depts/ssrg/medieval/demog.html (611 words)

	Medieval Sourcebook: Tables on Population in Medieval Europe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Estimated levels vary as a number of "multiplier" factor often have to be taken into account - estimated population density, ages of marriage, and perhaps most importantly the number of people denoted by a "hearth" in those medieval tax surveys that do provide hard numbers.
		Other expansions of the few hard figures we have are frequently done by using actuarial data from modern world societies with population structures like that of medieval Europe, for instance figures derived from Indian population surveys earlier in the 20th century.
		The Sourcebook is a collection of public domain and copy-permitted texts related to medieval and Byzantine history.
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/source/pop-in-eur.html (282 words)

	The Medieval Academy
		If they are not replaced, their departure creates a very clear threat to the state of medieval studies in North America and further loss to the large cohort of unemployed medievalists available to take those jobs.
		Pointing to the accomplishments of programs and of people working in medieval studies, demonstrating that medievalists are not simply complaining that life is, unfortunately, not like it used to be, and finding positive solutions for the difficulties of making the transition to a world with a new cohort of scholars will be productive.
		Those students opting to work on medieval topics are often better informed than others, who may not have even heard of the Middle Ages.
	www.medievalacademy.org /medacnews/news_unger.htm (1377 words)

	The Invisible Majority: A Pathfinder on Secular Non-Noble Women of the Middle Ages
		The goal of this pathfinder is to identify key resources available to undergraduate and graduate students at UNC-Chapel Hill concerning the employment and family lives of non-noble medieval women and guide students to the location of further resources directly related to their specific topic.
		Information on medieval women is liberally integrated throughout the text while there is a significant chunk of information on women healers specifically.
		She focuses this effort on the changing role a medieval citizen faced as he or she aged.
	www.unc.edu /~whisl/pathfinder.htm (3295 words)

	Population Index - Volume 56 - Number 2
		The third part is concerned with demography and examines trends in marriage and divorce, household composition and size, and patterns of sexual behavior.
		Topics covered include changes in territorial organization over time, medieval demography through architectural and urban evidence, environment and population at the end of the Middle Ages, the transition from epidemic to controlled mortality, trends in infant mortality, migration and resettlement, Livorno from 1427 to 1750, and marriage and the family.
		The 14 papers are divided into three sections, which concern general issues in historical demography, issues specific to the Soviet Union, and issues concerning other regions of the world.
	popindex.princeton.edu /browse/v56/n2/i.html (1072 words)

	Europe on the Eve of Discovery\| Lectures in Medieval History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The discovery of the New World changed European society greatly and effectively brought about what is generally called "the modern era." Let's consider some major aspects of Europe society in about 1475 and then ask how the new discoveries affected those characteristics.
		In a physical sense, medieval men and women were mostly young: forty-five percent of the population was under fifteen.
		The Europeans made a virtue out of necessity, filled their religious year with fasts, and revered the holy hermits who reduced themselves to skin and bones in a mortification of the flesh that was intended to be an imitation of the passion of Jesus.
	www.vlib.us /medieval/lectures/eve_of_discovery.html (935 words)

	sociology - Demography
		Demography relies on the use of large amounts of data, including census returns and records of births, marriages and deaths.
		The earliest modern census was carried out in Britain in 1801.
		This pattern of population growth, with slow growth in preindustrial societies, followed by fast growth as the society develops and industrialises, followed by slow growth again as it becomes more affluent, is known as the demographic transition.
	www.aboutsociology.com /sociology/Demography (839 words)

	ORB --A Bibliography of Women in Late Antiquity
		Bagnall R.S. - Frier B.W. The demography of Roman Egypt.
		Frier, Bruce W. The Demography of the Early Roman Empire.
		Measuring sex, age and death in the Roman empire: studies in ancient demography.
	www.public.iastate.edu /~dhunter/arjava.htm (8059 words)

	Castilian as Plainsman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Historians concerned with more typical elements of medieval European life -- agriculture and land tenures, peasants and nobles, secular churchmen and monks, towns, middle classes, and urban economy -- have tended to dismiss the curious part of Spain where all these things were either lacking or of secondary importance.
		It seems highly probable, however, that in medieval times the region's grasslands were much more extensive than today, after centuries of overgrazing and spring burnings for it is upon grass, not matorral, that the medieval documents on grazing rights lay stress.
		No good study of the organization and tactics of the medieval Castilian army has yet appeared, but certain aspects are well treated, largely from the juridical standpoint, in A. Palomeque, "Contribución al estudio del ejército los estados de la reconquista," Anuario de Historia del Derecho Español, XV (1944), 205-251; cf.
	libro.uca.edu /frontier/bishko4.htm (5667 words)

	Demography - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Demography is the scientific study of biological populations.
		It encompasses the study of the size, structure and distribution of populations, and spatial and/or temporal changes in them in response to birth, death, migration and ageing.
		Demography Demography is the official journal of the Population Association of America.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Demography (1868 words)

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		The plan of studies of the History department of the Rostov State University intends to introduce the Western European medieval history as the main subject of the World history course studied in the second term.
		The history of concept “Middle Ages” and problems of the determination of the historical contents and chronological borders of medieval epoch in European, Russian and Soviet historiographic tradition.
		Mediterranean and North- Atlantic regions of development, medieval European shipbuilding and the convergence in the beginning of the great geographical discoveries era.
	www.ceu.hu /crc/Syllabi/alumni/medieval/Magakov.html (518 words)

	Bristol University - Faculty of Arts - Programme details
		The MA in Medieval Studies offers you the opportunity of interdisciplinary study or concentration on a single subject.
		You are required to take a Research Skills Seminar, which covers topics fundamental to the handling of medieval primary sources such as palaeography, theories of editing and the use of archival resources.
		In addition, you are required to attend an interdisciplinary seminar series which analyses a range of key texts, images and concepts central to the study of the European Middle Ages as a whole.
	www.bris.ac.uk /prospectus/postgraduate/2007/prog_details/ARTF/475 (358 words)

	Croatian Genealogy Newsletter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Mentioned is made of Fran Vrbanic and his economic history approach to demography.
		Both medieval studies and modern studies are described, such as Irgard Mahnken's study of Dubrovnik's population and Fedor Mikic's population studies of the island of Susak and Brsec in Istria.
		The book is divided into seven chapters covering all aspects of historical demography as it relates to Croatia and Croatians.
	www.durham.net /facts/crogen/newsltr11-demography.html (366 words)

	Population Index - Volume 54 - Number 1
		The focus is on the demography of medieval Europe, with one article on Egypt.
		These are the proceedings of a one-day seminar, held in Brussels, Belgium, in May 1984, concerning the sources and methods for the study of the historical demography of Belgium, the southern Netherlands, and Luxembourg prior to 1850.
		A method for measuring migration in historical demographic studies is developed and illustrated using data from reconstituted family files from the parish registers of Saguenay, Canada.
	popindex.princeton.edu /browse/v54/n1/i.html (1616 words)

	Middle Ages (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Prominent among these peoples in the movement that German historians term the Völkerwanderung were non-Germanic Huns and Avars and Magyars with the large number of Germanic and later Slavic peoples.
		:''See the more complete treatment at Medieval technology.'' During the 12th and 13th century in Europe there was a radical change in the rate of new inventions, innovations in the ways of managing traditional means of production, and economic growth.
		In less than a century there were more inventions developed and applied usefully than in the previous thousand years of human history all over the globe.
	middle-ages.iqnaut.net.cob-web.org:8888 (2728 words)

	Historical Demography course syllabus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The course is a comparative study of the population history of different regions of Europe and different fields of historical demography.
		The aim is to develop a reading and understanding skill in the special language and topics of the literature of demography.
		Russell, Josiah Cox 1985 - The control of late ancient and medieval population, Philadelphia, American Philosophical Society.
	www.ceu.hu /medstud/old/syfarago.htm (233 words)

	Medieval siege warfare
		are also thought to have dominated medieval warfare with the shock of their mounted charge.
		medieval military is seen to be dominated by heavily armed cavalry, i.e., "knights," who are believed by and large to have been drawn from the upper classes of
		In short, though The Medieval Siege is well illustrated and has a chatty style, it is a work that must be taken very seriously.
	www.deremilitari.org /RESOURCES/ARTICLES/bachrach1.htm (6203 words)

	History of Italy - World Wide Web Virtual Library - Italian History Index - Historical periods: Medieval Italian History
		Sections are devoted to Research centres, societies, and academies of particular interest for the study of the history of medieval philosophy and culture, as well as to research activities (text editions, research projects, etc.) on medieval subjects.
		Former Director of the Medieval Institute and Doctor of the Ambrosiana Astrik L. Gabriel became coordinator of the project whereby the Institute acquired positive and negative microfilms of all 12,000 Ambrosiana manuscripts; photographs and negatives of 10,000 drawings and 30,000 manuscript illuminations; and 8,000 color slides of drawings and illuminations.
		The Medieval Italian History Index is a joint project between the European University Institute's Library, the University of Palermo, Facoltà di Scienze della Formazione and the University of Naples, Dipartimento di Discipline Storiche "Ettore Lepore".
	vlib.iue.it /hist-italy/medieval.html (5830 words)

	Medieval Demographics Made Easy
		Sheep will be extremely common if the region has a wool market (like medieval England, which was built on wool).
		This is a fine book by amateur historians, which includes some fascinating descriptions of medieval city life and layout.
		Medieval Regions and Their Cities, by Josiah Cox Russel.
	www.io.com /~sjohn/demog.htm (2833 words)

	Demography & Economics
		Early estimates of urban demography for four Harnic urban centres (Aleath, Coranan, Tashal, and Telen).
		The Maze of Medieval Mint Metrology in Flanders, France and England: Determining the Weight of the Marc de Troyes and the Tower Pound from the Economics of Counterfeiting, 1388-1469.
		Islam and the Medieval Progentitors of Austrian Economics (Ahmad, 1995)
	homepage.mac.com /jeremybaker/towerhills/demoecon.html (1490 words)

	Amazon.com: The Cloister and the World: Essays in Medieval History in Honour of Barbara Harvey: Books: John Blair,Brian ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		BLA worthy tribute to a great medievalist, Barbara Harvey This outstanding collection of essays honour a distinguished scholar best known for her work on late medieval economy, demography, and estate management, and on the monastic community at Westminster.
		The uniting theme is the imprint of the church, especially the monastic church, upon society at large.
		Contributions range from the eighth to sixteenth centuries, with an emphasis on the later middle ages, looking at urban religion, monastic education, and the role of religious communities in stimulating economic growth.
	www.amazon.com /Cloister-World-Medieval-History-Barbara/dp/019820440X (787 words)

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