Adam Franklin-Lyons
Biographic Data
| ID | 5989114 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Adam Franklin-Lyons |
| GIVEN NAMES | Adam |
| FAMILY NAME | Franklin-Lyons |
| SIGNATURE | FRANKLIN-LYONS A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Marlboro College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Performative openness and governmental secrecy in fourteenth century Valencia
In the fourteenth century, the urban council of Valencia tried to balance maintaining the secrecy of their government with a perceived need to publicise their actions. The council knew from experience that information vacuums could be dangerous. Feuds between noble groups made the urban council wary of the secret actions of council members. Food shortages and the anti-Jewish riots in 1391 also pressured the council to project a public face of act…
Visualization, mapping, and the history of mobility in the Middle Ages
This paper reviews digital methods of scholarship for visualization and mapping, and it then shows how creative and experimental visualization can help us to study the extensive networks that lay behind human mobility, from trade to war, communication, pilgrimage, migration, and much else. In the process, the paper will familiarize historians with the key aspects of digital methods from amalgamating large quantities of data to finding patterns wi…
Framing Mediterranean Famine
The study of famine has long been a part of the broader historical literature on late medieval crisis, but until recently the anglophone literature on this subject has tended to focus on the experience of northern Europe. The present article examines two famine cycles in the city of Barcelona: one in the 1330s, the other in the 1370s. Using sources ranging from chronicles to municipal ordinances to royal correspondence, this article analyzes thes…
La Invención de las Noticias
Fourteenth-Century Rent Management in Catalonia
This article investigates the changing practice of land management by the Cathedral poorhouse of Barcelona, known as the Pia Almoina. During the fourteenth century, the institution moved away from earlier increases in the use of free tenancy and fixed-rate rents and began to acquire new lands that relied more heavily on sharecropping and wage labor. The shift began before the depopulation brought on by the Black Death and continued through the se…
The Waning of the Mediterranean, 1550-1870
Sourcebook in Late-Scholastic Monetary Theory
Fourteenth-Century Rent Management in Catalonia
This article investigates the changing practice of land management by the Cathedral poorhouse of Barcelona, known as the Pia Almoina. During the fourteenth century, the institution moved away from earlier increases in the use of free tenancy and fixed-rate rents and began to acquire new lands that relied more heavily on sharecropping and wage labor. The shift began before the depopulation brought on by the Black Death and continued through the se…
Sourcebook in Late-Scholastic Monetary Theory
The Waning of the Mediterranean, 1550-1870
Fourteenth-Century Rent Management in Catalonia
This article investigates the changing practice of land management by the Cathedral poorhouse of Barcelona, known as the Pia Almoina. During the fourteenth century, the institution moved away from earlier increases in the use of free tenancy and fixed-rate rents and began to acquire new lands that relied more heavily on sharecropping and wage labor. The shift began before the depopulation brought on by the Black Death and continued through the se…
La Invención de las Noticias
Visualization, mapping, and the history of mobility in the Middle Ages
This paper reviews digital methods of scholarship for visualization and mapping, and it then shows how creative and experimental visualization can help us to study the extensive networks that lay behind human mobility, from trade to war, communication, pilgrimage, migration, and much else. In the process, the paper will familiarize historians with the key aspects of digital methods from amalgamating large quantities of data to finding patterns wi…
Framing Mediterranean Famine
The study of famine has long been a part of the broader historical literature on late medieval crisis, but until recently the anglophone literature on this subject has tended to focus on the experience of northern Europe. The present article examines two famine cycles in the city of Barcelona: one in the 1330s, the other in the 1370s. Using sources ranging from chronicles to municipal ordinances to royal correspondence, this article analyzes thes…
Performative openness and governmental secrecy in fourteenth century Valencia
In the fourteenth century, the urban council of Valencia tried to balance maintaining the secrecy of their government with a perceived need to publicise their actions. The council knew from experience that information vacuums could be dangerous. Feuds between noble groups made the urban council wary of the secret actions of council members. Food shortages and the anti-Jewish riots in 1391 also pressured the council to project a public face of act…
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