James E Shaw
Biographic Data
| ID | 3953139 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James E Shaw |
| GIVEN NAMES | James E |
| FAMILY NAME | Shaw |
| SIGNATURE | SHAW J E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Sheffield |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0928-3604 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 24 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1949 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Family ties under strain
Business failure was a key moment of crisis for family relations, when obligations to kin were tested and liabilities negotiated. Family ties have generally been regarded as a positive resource, and a key form of insurance against failure, but in practice the terms and conditions of assistance could be a matter of delicate negotiation. Focusing on a case study from nineteenth-century Sheffield, the article uses personal and business correspondenc…
G uido A lfani and M atteo D i T ullio . The Lion’s Share
Following the success of Thomas Piketty’s 2013 study Capital in the Twenty-First Century, the growth of inequality has been the subject of further historical interest. One recent example can be found in The Lion’s Share: Inequality and the Rise of the Fiscal State in Preindustrial Europe, which is part of a series of related projects seeking to measure economic inequality in preindustrial Europe from a comparative perspective. Using tax data from…
The Informal Economy of Credit in Early Modern Venice
Evidence from the Piovego, the fraud magistracy of early modern Venice, offers a critical perspective on the documentary record of credit and the ways in which this was used in practice. Although it was formally illegal to charge interest on personal loans, a variety of legal fictions were employed to evade the ban. Such fictions significantly reduced the transparency and certainty of exchange, pushing personal loans into a world of semi-legality…
La révolte des boules de neige
This book is a microhistory of a symbolic protest that took place on the island of Murano in 1509—the hurling of snowballs and abusive language at one outgoing Venetian official during the ceremonial entry of his successor. Although a relatively insignificant event in comparison with the violent upheavals taking place elsewhere in this period, the ‘snowball revolt’ illustrates the potential for popular action in the shaping of political life. Suc…
Market Ethics and Practices, c. 1300–1850
The Hero of Italy
Journal Article The Hero of Italy: Odoardo Farnese, Duke of Parma, His Soldiers, and His Subjects in the Thirty Years’ War Get access The Hero of Italy: Odoardo Farnese, Duke of Parma, His Soldiers, and His Subjects in the Thirty Years’ War. By Gregory Hanlon. Oxford: OUP, 2014. 256 pp. £60.00. ISBN: 978 0 199 68724 4. James Shaw James Shaw University of Sheffield Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar French His…
Nourrir la ville
Nourrir la ville: Ravitaillement, marché et métiers de l’alimentation à Venise dans les derniers siècles du Moyen Age. Fabien Faugeron. Bibliothèque des Écoles françaises d’Athènes et de Rome 362. Rome: École française de Rome, 2014. xxv + 886 pp. €59. - Volume 68 Issue 4
Sandra Cavallo and Tessa Storey, Healthy Living in Late Renaissance Italy
Journal Article Sandra Cavallo and Tessa Storey, Healthy Living in Late Renaissance Italy Get access Sandra Cavallo and Tessa Storey, Healthy Living in Late Renaissance Italy, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. Pp. viii + 312. £65. ISBN 978 0 19 967813 6. James E. Shaw James E. Shaw University of Sheffield [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social History of Medicine, Volum…
Tim Carter and Richard A. Goldthwaite. Orpheus in the Marketplace
Journal Article Tim Carter and Richard A. Goldthwaite. Orpheus in the Marketplace: Jacopo Peri and the Economy of Late Renaissance Florence. Get access Tim Carter and Richard A. Goldthwaite. Orpheus in the Marketplace: Jacopo Peri and the Economy of Late Renaissance Florence. (I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History.) Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2013. Pp. xiv, 479. $49.95. James E. Shaw James E. Shaw University of Sheffield…
Market ethics and credit practices in sixteenth‐century Tuscany
james e . shaw , Market ethics and credit practices in sixteenth‐century Tuscany This paper examines the moral economy of mid‐sixteenth‐century Tuscany, with a focus on the practices of credit and exchange at the quotidian level. Supplications for justice addressed to the duke and redirected to the Mercanzia (Merchants’ Court) provide rich evidence of the way that people negotiated the rules, ethics and practices of the market. Supplications pres…
Cultures of Plague
The sixteenth century was a key period of change for European medicine: doctors were confronted with previously unknown diseases, peoples and commodities; printed editions of medical texts came into wide circulation and new genres emerged, such as ‘books of secrets’; new commercial opportunities opened up for operators within and outside the establishment. Yet despite these changes and the diffusion of new ideas about anatomy, contagion and chemi…
Writing to the Prince
General rules cannot possibly comprehend all particular cases. Francesco Guicciardini1 One of the key problems for legal theorists of the late medieval and early modern periods was the relation of the universal to the particular. As Jean Bodin put it: ‘The infinite variety of circumstances do not permit of uniform treatment’.2 Laws consisted of general principles, but their application to the individual case might result in injustice.3 In all jud…
Crime and Justice in Late Medieval Italy – By Trevor Dean
Information and Communication in Venice
Civic Christianity in Renaissance Italy
Living on the Edge in Leonardo's Florence
Brucker is one of the old masters of Florentine social and political history, and this collection conveniently brings together ten of his essays from the last decade. Most have been previously published, but some are difficult to access, and three are published here for the first time. Following a short autobiographical and historiographical introduction, the essays fall into two broad groups. The first five essays are sweeping overviews of Itali…
Florence et la Toscane, XIVe-XIXe siecles
Interest in Florence usually terminates with the fall of the last republic in 1530, an event often taken as symbolising the end of the Renaissance. Although some attention has been paid to the Medici Dukes, historians have shown relatively little interest in the ‘forgotten centuries’ (Cochrane, 1973) of the city beyond the Renaissance, and the whole region is typically written off as lapsing into a state of cultural, economic and political declin…
Renaissance Florence
Agents of Empire
Abandoned Children of the Italian Renaissance
A dialogue on spying in 17th-century Venice 1
This article is a dialogue on the role of spies in 17th-century Venetian culture. It discusses topics such as the circulation of information through different channels and media, legal notions of proof in relation to the evidence provided by spies, and the cultural meanings of secrecy
A Rural Cancer Outreach Program Lowers Patient Care Costs and Benefits Both the Rural Hospitals and Sponsoring Academic Medical Center
The Rural Cancer Outreach Pmgram (RCOP) between hoo rural hospitals and the Mediral College of Virginia's Massey Cancer Center (MCC) was developed to bring state‐of‐the‐art cancer care to medically underserved rural patients. The financial impact of the RCOP on both the rural hospitals and the MCC was analyzed. Pre‐ and post‐RCOP financial data were collected on 1,745 cancer patients treated at the participating centers, huo rural community hospi…
Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices of Public Health Nurses Regarding Breast and Cervical Cancer
Public health nurses have traditionally served as primary health care providers in rural and medically underserved communities. In North Carolina, they play a key role in the delivery of services for the Comprehensive Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program. To better understand their knowledge, attitudes, and clinical practices regarding breast and cervical cancer, a survey was developed to assess the public health nurses who worked i…
Ayrshire, 1745-1950. A Social and Industrial History of the County
Dante's American Pilgrimage
Market ethics and credit practices in sixteenth‐century Tuscany
james e . shaw , Market ethics and credit practices in sixteenth‐century Tuscany This paper examines the moral economy of mid‐sixteenth‐century Tuscany, with a focus on the practices of credit and exchange at the quotidian level. Supplications for justice addressed to the duke and redirected to the Mercanzia (Merchants’ Court) provide rich evidence of the way that people negotiated the rules, ethics and practices of the market. Supplications pres…
Writing to the Prince
General rules cannot possibly comprehend all particular cases. Francesco Guicciardini1 One of the key problems for legal theorists of the late medieval and early modern periods was the relation of the universal to the particular. As Jean Bodin put it: ‘The infinite variety of circumstances do not permit of uniform treatment’.2 Laws consisted of general principles, but their application to the individual case might result in injustice.3 In all jud…
The Informal Economy of Credit in Early Modern Venice
Evidence from the Piovego, the fraud magistracy of early modern Venice, offers a critical perspective on the documentary record of credit and the ways in which this was used in practice. Although it was formally illegal to charge interest on personal loans, a variety of legal fictions were employed to evade the ban. Such fictions significantly reduced the transparency and certainty of exchange, pushing personal loans into a world of semi-legality…
Information and Communication in Venice
A dialogue on spying in 17th-century Venice 1
This article is a dialogue on the role of spies in 17th-century Venetian culture. It discusses topics such as the circulation of information through different channels and media, legal notions of proof in relation to the evidence provided by spies, and the cultural meanings of secrecy
Ayrshire, 1745-1950. A Social and Industrial History of the County
Dante's American Pilgrimage
Ayrshire, 1745-1950. A Social and Industrial History of the County
Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices of Public Health Nurses Regarding Breast and Cervical Cancer
Public health nurses have traditionally served as primary health care providers in rural and medically underserved communities. In North Carolina, they play a key role in the delivery of services for the Comprehensive Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program. To better understand their knowledge, attitudes, and clinical practices regarding breast and cervical cancer, a survey was developed to assess the public health nurses who worked i…
A Rural Cancer Outreach Program Lowers Patient Care Costs and Benefits Both the Rural Hospitals and Sponsoring Academic Medical Center
The Rural Cancer Outreach Pmgram (RCOP) between hoo rural hospitals and the Mediral College of Virginia's Massey Cancer Center (MCC) was developed to bring state‐of‐the‐art cancer care to medically underserved rural patients. The financial impact of the RCOP on both the rural hospitals and the MCC was analyzed. Pre‐ and post‐RCOP financial data were collected on 1,745 cancer patients treated at the participating centers, huo rural community hospi…
A dialogue on spying in 17th-century Venice 1
This article is a dialogue on the role of spies in 17th-century Venetian culture. It discusses topics such as the circulation of information through different channels and media, legal notions of proof in relation to the evidence provided by spies, and the cultural meanings of secrecy
Renaissance Florence
Agents of Empire
Abandoned Children of the Italian Renaissance
Civic Christianity in Renaissance Italy
Living on the Edge in Leonardo's Florence
Brucker is one of the old masters of Florentine social and political history, and this collection conveniently brings together ten of his essays from the last decade. Most have been previously published, but some are difficult to access, and three are published here for the first time. Following a short autobiographical and historiographical introduction, the essays fall into two broad groups. The first five essays are sweeping overviews of Itali…
Florence et la Toscane, XIVe-XIXe siecles
Interest in Florence usually terminates with the fall of the last republic in 1530, an event often taken as symbolising the end of the Renaissance. Although some attention has been paid to the Medici Dukes, historians have shown relatively little interest in the ‘forgotten centuries’ (Cochrane, 1973) of the city beyond the Renaissance, and the whole region is typically written off as lapsing into a state of cultural, economic and political declin…
Crime and Justice in Late Medieval Italy – By Trevor Dean
Information and Communication in Venice
Cultures of Plague
The sixteenth century was a key period of change for European medicine: doctors were confronted with previously unknown diseases, peoples and commodities; printed editions of medical texts came into wide circulation and new genres emerged, such as ‘books of secrets’; new commercial opportunities opened up for operators within and outside the establishment. Yet despite these changes and the diffusion of new ideas about anatomy, contagion and chemi…
Writing to the Prince
General rules cannot possibly comprehend all particular cases. Francesco Guicciardini1 One of the key problems for legal theorists of the late medieval and early modern periods was the relation of the universal to the particular. As Jean Bodin put it: ‘The infinite variety of circumstances do not permit of uniform treatment’.2 Laws consisted of general principles, but their application to the individual case might result in injustice.3 In all jud…
Market ethics and credit practices in sixteenth‐century Tuscany
james e . shaw , Market ethics and credit practices in sixteenth‐century Tuscany This paper examines the moral economy of mid‐sixteenth‐century Tuscany, with a focus on the practices of credit and exchange at the quotidian level. Supplications for justice addressed to the duke and redirected to the Mercanzia (Merchants’ Court) provide rich evidence of the way that people negotiated the rules, ethics and practices of the market. Supplications pres…
Sandra Cavallo and Tessa Storey, Healthy Living in Late Renaissance Italy
Journal Article Sandra Cavallo and Tessa Storey, Healthy Living in Late Renaissance Italy Get access Sandra Cavallo and Tessa Storey, Healthy Living in Late Renaissance Italy, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. Pp. viii + 312. £65. ISBN 978 0 19 967813 6. James E. Shaw James E. Shaw University of Sheffield [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social History of Medicine, Volum…
Tim Carter and Richard A. Goldthwaite. Orpheus in the Marketplace
Journal Article Tim Carter and Richard A. Goldthwaite. Orpheus in the Marketplace: Jacopo Peri and the Economy of Late Renaissance Florence. Get access Tim Carter and Richard A. Goldthwaite. Orpheus in the Marketplace: Jacopo Peri and the Economy of Late Renaissance Florence. (I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History.) Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2013. Pp. xiv, 479. $49.95. James E. Shaw James E. Shaw University of Sheffield…
The Hero of Italy
Journal Article The Hero of Italy: Odoardo Farnese, Duke of Parma, His Soldiers, and His Subjects in the Thirty Years’ War Get access The Hero of Italy: Odoardo Farnese, Duke of Parma, His Soldiers, and His Subjects in the Thirty Years’ War. By Gregory Hanlon. Oxford: OUP, 2014. 256 pp. £60.00. ISBN: 978 0 199 68724 4. James Shaw James Shaw University of Sheffield Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar French His…
Nourrir la ville
Nourrir la ville: Ravitaillement, marché et métiers de l’alimentation à Venise dans les derniers siècles du Moyen Age. Fabien Faugeron. Bibliothèque des Écoles françaises d’Athènes et de Rome 362. Rome: École française de Rome, 2014. xxv + 886 pp. €59. - Volume 68 Issue 4
La révolte des boules de neige
This book is a microhistory of a symbolic protest that took place on the island of Murano in 1509—the hurling of snowballs and abusive language at one outgoing Venetian official during the ceremonial entry of his successor. Although a relatively insignificant event in comparison with the violent upheavals taking place elsewhere in this period, the ‘snowball revolt’ illustrates the potential for popular action in the shaping of political life. Suc…
Market Ethics and Practices, c. 1300–1850
The Informal Economy of Credit in Early Modern Venice
Evidence from the Piovego, the fraud magistracy of early modern Venice, offers a critical perspective on the documentary record of credit and the ways in which this was used in practice. Although it was formally illegal to charge interest on personal loans, a variety of legal fictions were employed to evade the ban. Such fictions significantly reduced the transparency and certainty of exchange, pushing personal loans into a world of semi-legality…
G uido A lfani and M atteo D i T ullio . The Lion’s Share
Following the success of Thomas Piketty’s 2013 study Capital in the Twenty-First Century, the growth of inequality has been the subject of further historical interest. One recent example can be found in The Lion’s Share: Inequality and the Rise of the Fiscal State in Preindustrial Europe, which is part of a series of related projects seeking to measure economic inequality in preindustrial Europe from a comparative perspective. Using tax data from…
Family ties under strain
Business failure was a key moment of crisis for family relations, when obligations to kin were tested and liabilities negotiated. Family ties have generally been regarded as a positive resource, and a key form of insurance against failure, but in practice the terms and conditions of assistance could be a matter of delicate negotiation. Focusing on a case study from nineteenth-century Sheffield, the article uses personal and business correspondenc…
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