Martha Howell

Biographic Data

ID1003744
NAMEMartha Howell
GIVEN NAMESMartha
FAMILY NAMEHowell
SIGNATUREHOWELL M
AFFILIATIONSColumbia University
ORCID0000-0001-9740-712X
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS37
TOTAL CITATIONS40
AUTHOR COUNT35
EDITOR COUNT2
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1969
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX3

  • Social value of a childhood Qaly - Revealed preferences from pharmaceutical funding decisions in Australia 2005–2023

    Open AccessJing Jing Li, D Mortimer et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2026

    Several countries now formally include at least one aspect of equity, alongside cost-effectiveness, in health technology assessment (HTA) decisions, often focusing on need. Recent literature suggests public support for prioritising health gains for children over adults. While some agencies may indirectly consider age, none explicitly apply different weights to health gains for children. This study analysed 19 years of data to quantify the additio…

  • Development of the What Matters 2 Adults (WM2A) wellbeing measure for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander adults

    Open AccessKirsten Howard, Gerald Garvey et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2024References: 44

    The unique combination of Indigenist and psychometric methodologies to develop WM2A ensures a culturally and psychometrically robust measure, relevant across a range of settings and applications

  • Merchant Masculinity in Early Modern Northern Europe

    Martha HowellARTICLECultural and Social History2020References: 6

    A range of images and texts circulating in early modern northern Europe implicitly assigned elite merchants vigorous masculinity by crediting them with the ability to control the powerful, if hazardous, market

  • The Problem of Women’s Agency in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe

    Open AccessMartha HowellCHAPTER2019

    In the last few decades, historians have regularly used the term "agency" to frame their studies of historical actors, probably none more so than historians of late medieval and early modern women. Witness, to cite just a few recent examples, all treating European women from roughly 1300 to 1800

  • Rereading Huizinga: Autumn of the Middle Ages, a Century Later

    Peter Arnade, Martha Howell et al.BOOKRereading Huizinga2019

  • Use of progression criteria to support monitoring and commissioning decision making of public health services: Lessons from Better Start Bradford

    Open AccessMaria Bryant, Nimarta Dharni et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2019

    Our methodology for monitoring the progression of interventions has resulted in a clear pathway which will support commissioners and intervention teams in local decision making within the Better Start Bradford programme and beyond. This work can support others wishing to implement a formal system for monitoring the progression of public health interventions

  • Credit Networks And Political Actors In Thirteenth-Century Ypres

    Open AccessMartha HowellARTICLEPast & Present2019

    During the second half of the thirteenth century the Flemish city of Ypres, then at its economic apogee, produced a trove of credit agreements between Yprois borrowers on the one hand, and lenders both from Ypres and from much of western Europe on the other. The individual citizens named in the some 5,600 contracts available constitute about a third of the adult male population that would have lived in the city over the majority of the years cove…

  • Le crédit au quotidien: Introduction

    Open AccessMartha Howell, Claire BillenARTICLEHistoire urbaine2018

  • Un réseau de crédit à Ypres au XIII e siècle: Les reconnaissances de dettes de 1249-1291

    Open AccessMartha HowellARTICLEHistoire urbaine2018

    La ville flamande d’Ypres, à la toute fin du XIII e siècle, à son apogée économique de plus grande cité fabricante de draps de laine de luxe, nous a laissé 6 000 contrats de dette couvrant presque cinquante années de l’histoire de la ville. Nous ne possédons aucune autre trace au nord de l’Europe, avant le bas XV e siècle, voire le XVI e . Ces sources exposent non seulement la complexité des structures socio-économiques de la ville mais aussi les…

  • Sharon Farmer. The Silk Industries of Medieval Paris: Artisanal Migration, Technical Innovation, and Gendered Experience

    Open AccessMartha HowellARTICLEThe American Historical Review2018

    Sharon Farmer’s The Silk Industries of Medieval Paris offers a satisfying explanation for the development and structure of the silk industry in Paris during the later thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. The industry was born, Farmer argues, in response to the demand for luxury textiles not only from the French court itself but also from the aristocrats who had established residences in the royal city, from members of the prestigious university c…

  • Legal Plunder: Households and Debt Collection in Late Medieval Europe

    Open AccessMartha HowellARTICLERenaissance Quarterly2017

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  • Patrick Lantschner. The Logic of Political Conflict in Medieval Cities: Italy and the Southern Low Countries, 1370–1440

    Martha HowellARTICLEThe American Historical Review2017

    Patrick Lantschner’s The Logic of Political Conflict in Medieval Cities: Italy and the Southern Low Countries, 1370–1440 is an impressive study of how politics “worked” in the cities of the southern Low Countries and Italy during the late Middle Ages. It is based on a close study of patterns of conflict in three cities from both of these highly urbanized regions, arranged in north-south pairs to reflect similarities in what Lantschner calls their…

  • Oscar Gelderblom. Cities of Commerce: The Institutional Foundations of International Trade in the Low Countries, 1250–1650

    Martha HowellARTICLEThe American Historical Review2014

    Journal Article Oscar Gelderblom. Cities of Commerce: The Institutional Foundations of International Trade in the Low Countries, 1250–1650. Get access Oscar Gelderblom. Cities of Commerce: The Institutional Foundations of International Trade in the Low Countries, 1250–1650. (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World.) Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2013. Pp. xii, 293. Cloth $35.00, e-book $35.00. Martha Howell Martha Howel…

  • Gender in the Transition to Merchant Capitalism

    Martha HowellCHAPTERThe Oxford Handbook of Women and…2013

    This essay argues that the slow transition from the commercial economy of the later Middle Ages to early modern merchant capitalism produced significant changes in gender roles and gender meanings for women and men from the middle and upper ranks of cities where commerce had found its most secure home. The changes in gender were filtered, however, through a public/private divide that had taken shape in such cities during the centuries closing the…

  • The Power of Space in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe: The cities of Italy, Northern France and the Low Countries

    Marc Boone, Martha HowellBOOKPower of Space in Late Medieval…2013

  • Consumer involvement in topic and outcome selection in the development of clinical practice guidelines

    Open AccessA Jaure, Allison Tong et al.ARTICLEHealth Expectations2012

    Background Consumer involvement in guideline development is advocated, but minimal participation, such as a nominated consumer representative on a guideline working group, can inhibit their decision‐making power and contribution. Little is known about how to involve consumers more effectively in guideline development. Objective To describe a targeted approach for involving consumers actively in guideline development, by focusing on topic and outc…

  • Anna Bellavitis, Famille, genre, transmission à Venise au XVI e siècle

    Martha Howell, Martha C HowellARTICLEL Homme2011

  • The Gender of Europe's Commercial Economy, 1200–1700

    Open AccessMartha HowellARTICLEGender & History2008Cited by: 2

    This essay proposes that between about 1200 and 1700, commerce was rescued from the margins of the European moral economy with the help of a gender binary that took shape among a rising class of European merchant and artisan families. Among this class, a more rigid sexual division of labour was accompanied by a cultural narrative that credited tradesmen with the ability to serve the social whole and charged their wives and daughters with the task…

  • The Women Bush Forgot

    Martha HowellARTICLERadical History Review2005

    Research Article| October 01 2005 The Women Bush Forgot Martha Howell Martha Howell Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (2005) 2005 (93): 142–148. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-2005-93-142 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Mart…

  • Fertile Spaces: The Productivity of Urban Space in Northern Europe

    Peter Arnade, Martha Howell et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Interdisciplinary…2002Cited by: 19References: 7

    Spatial theory—the study of the relationship between material and discursive spatial practices—has great potential for recasting our understanding of urban life in Europe during the late medieval and early modern period, a formative moment in the history of Western urbanity. Urban space—and spaces— acquired powerful, effective valences in this age, producing new social possibilities and new historical actors while simulataneously eliminating othe…

  • Réseaux de pouvoir et solidarités de parti à Liége au moyen âge (1250-1468). Geneviève Xhayet

    Martha Howell, Martha C HowellARTICLESpeculum2000

  • The Marriage Exchange: Property, Social Place, and Gender in Cities of the Low Countries, 1300-1500

    Jeffrey R Watts, Jeffrey R Watt et al.ARTICLEThe American Historical Review1999

  • The Common Legal Past of Europe, 1000-1800

    Open AccessMartha Howell, Martha C HowellARTICLERenaissance Quarterly1998

    Manlio Bellomo. The Common Legal Past of Europe, 1000-1800. Trans. Lydia G. Cochrane (Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Canon Law, 4.) Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 1995. xix + 252 pp. 18.95 paper. ISBN: 0-8132-0814-9. - Volume 51 Issue 1

  • Becoming early modern in the late medieval Low Countries

    Open AccessMartha Howell, Marc BooneARTICLEUrban History1996Cited by: 1References: 4

    The history of cities in the Low Countries at the end of Middle Ages is commonly presented as one of discontinuity in which old textile centres collapsed, and were replaced by new centres such as Antwerp, Leiden, Lille and Amsterdam which were in fundamental respects entirely unlike their medieval predecessors. This conventional interpretation is challenged with reference to Ghent and Douai. Neither suffered devastating economic decline, social t…

  • Fixing Movables: Gifts by Testament in Late Medieval Douai

    Martha Howell, M C HowellARTICLEPast & Present1996Cited by: 10

    Journal Article FIXING MOVABLES: GIFTS BY TESTAMENT IN LATE MEDIEVAL DOUAI Get access Martha C. Howell Martha C. Howell Columbia University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 150, Issue 1, February 1996, Pages 3–45, https://doi.org/10.1093/past/150.1.3 Published: 01 February 1996