Judith Spicksley
Biographic Data
| ID | 951831 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Judith Spicksley |
| GIVEN NAMES | Judith |
| FAMILY NAME | Spicksley |
| SIGNATURE | SPICKSLEY J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Hull |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2400-6311 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 31 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Voluntary Slavery and the Meaning of Slavery
For most scholars of slavery, the pairing of the terms ‘voluntary’ and ‘slavery’ remains problematic. The dominant model of slavery defines it as an involuntary status, in which people—according to the liberal model of ownership—were reduced to ‘things’, able to be used, abused and even killed at will. However, this involuntary model is a modern creation, developed by abolitionists from the eighteenth century. Prior to this, being owned did not n…
Women and the Land, 1500-1900
Women, ‘Usury’ and Credit in Early Modern England
© 2015 John Wiley & Sons Ltd. In the transition from medieval notions of usury to modern notions of interest, single women appear to have enjoyed a special role.While probate documents confirm that an increasing number were engaged in interest-bearing lending over the course of the seventeenth century, there is virtually no critique of such activity, despite the fact that antipathy towards lending for profit remained. That their lending activitie…
Contested enslavement
The Portuguese were keen slave traders on the west central coast of Africa in the early modern period, but governors in Angola appear to have been increasingly unhappy about certain aspects of enslavement in relation to debt, and in particular that of children. Slavery for debt was uncommon in early modern Europe, where three arguments, drawn from Roman law, were usually cited by way of justification: birth; war; and self-sale. Cavazzi, an Italia…
Pawns on the Gold Coast
In the seventeenth century, Europeans on the Gold Coast took gold pawns as security for debt, but from the early eighteenth century, they turned increasingly toward the use of human pawns. This shift was the result of a transformation in levels of demand for gold amongst African sellers, most notably the Asante, who began to secure control over local gold sources from c . 1700. The change in demand for gold was accompanied by a rise in slave pric…
Household servants in early modern England - By Roger C. Richardson
Worth, age, and social status in early modern England1
This article introduces a new source for assessing the distribution of wealth in early modern England derived from witness depositions taken by the church courts. It discusses the accuracy of statements of ‘worth’ provided by thousands of witnesses between the mid-sixteenth and later seventeenth centuries, and uses the monetary estimates of worth in goods that the majority of deponents supplied to assess the changing distribution of personal weal…
The culture of giving
Usury legislation, cash, and credit
This article uses testamentary evidence from Lincoln diocesan court between the 1570s and the 1690s to examine links between inheritance, a rise in money-lending amongst single women, and an increase in the proportion of women that never married. Two trends emerge: first, more fathers after the 1570s chose to bequeath cash to their daughters; second, they were more likely to restrict access to this portion by age rather than marriage. Assisted by…
Fly with a duck in thy mouth’
About the year 1500, an Italian visitor, in relating to his lord his experience of ‘the island of England’, included a reference to the participation of the ‘common people’ in interest-bearing lend
The social and cultural history of early modern England
Fly with a duck in thy mouth’
About the year 1500, an Italian visitor, in relating to his lord his experience of ‘the island of England’, included a reference to the participation of the ‘common people’ in interest-bearing lend
Pawns on the Gold Coast
In the seventeenth century, Europeans on the Gold Coast took gold pawns as security for debt, but from the early eighteenth century, they turned increasingly toward the use of human pawns. This shift was the result of a transformation in levels of demand for gold amongst African sellers, most notably the Asante, who began to secure control over local gold sources from c . 1700. The change in demand for gold was accompanied by a rise in slave pric…
Worth, age, and social status in early modern England1
This article introduces a new source for assessing the distribution of wealth in early modern England derived from witness depositions taken by the church courts. It discusses the accuracy of statements of ‘worth’ provided by thousands of witnesses between the mid-sixteenth and later seventeenth centuries, and uses the monetary estimates of worth in goods that the majority of deponents supplied to assess the changing distribution of personal weal…
Usury legislation, cash, and credit
This article uses testamentary evidence from Lincoln diocesan court between the 1570s and the 1690s to examine links between inheritance, a rise in money-lending amongst single women, and an increase in the proportion of women that never married. Two trends emerge: first, more fathers after the 1570s chose to bequeath cash to their daughters; second, they were more likely to restrict access to this portion by age rather than marriage. Assisted by…
Women, ‘Usury’ and Credit in Early Modern England
© 2015 John Wiley & Sons Ltd. In the transition from medieval notions of usury to modern notions of interest, single women appear to have enjoyed a special role.While probate documents confirm that an increasing number were engaged in interest-bearing lending over the course of the seventeenth century, there is virtually no critique of such activity, despite the fact that antipathy towards lending for profit remained. That their lending activitie…
The social and cultural history of early modern England
The social and cultural history of early modern England
Fly with a duck in thy mouth’
About the year 1500, an Italian visitor, in relating to his lord his experience of ‘the island of England’, included a reference to the participation of the ‘common people’ in interest-bearing lend
Usury legislation, cash, and credit
This article uses testamentary evidence from Lincoln diocesan court between the 1570s and the 1690s to examine links between inheritance, a rise in money-lending amongst single women, and an increase in the proportion of women that never married. Two trends emerge: first, more fathers after the 1570s chose to bequeath cash to their daughters; second, they were more likely to restrict access to this portion by age rather than marriage. Assisted by…
The culture of giving
Household servants in early modern England - By Roger C. Richardson
Worth, age, and social status in early modern England1
This article introduces a new source for assessing the distribution of wealth in early modern England derived from witness depositions taken by the church courts. It discusses the accuracy of statements of ‘worth’ provided by thousands of witnesses between the mid-sixteenth and later seventeenth centuries, and uses the monetary estimates of worth in goods that the majority of deponents supplied to assess the changing distribution of personal weal…
Pawns on the Gold Coast
In the seventeenth century, Europeans on the Gold Coast took gold pawns as security for debt, but from the early eighteenth century, they turned increasingly toward the use of human pawns. This shift was the result of a transformation in levels of demand for gold amongst African sellers, most notably the Asante, who began to secure control over local gold sources from c . 1700. The change in demand for gold was accompanied by a rise in slave pric…
Women, ‘Usury’ and Credit in Early Modern England
© 2015 John Wiley & Sons Ltd. In the transition from medieval notions of usury to modern notions of interest, single women appear to have enjoyed a special role.While probate documents confirm that an increasing number were engaged in interest-bearing lending over the course of the seventeenth century, there is virtually no critique of such activity, despite the fact that antipathy towards lending for profit remained. That their lending activitie…
Contested enslavement
The Portuguese were keen slave traders on the west central coast of Africa in the early modern period, but governors in Angola appear to have been increasingly unhappy about certain aspects of enslavement in relation to debt, and in particular that of children. Slavery for debt was uncommon in early modern Europe, where three arguments, drawn from Roman law, were usually cited by way of justification: birth; war; and self-sale. Cavazzi, an Italia…
Women and the Land, 1500-1900
Voluntary Slavery and the Meaning of Slavery
For most scholars of slavery, the pairing of the terms ‘voluntary’ and ‘slavery’ remains problematic. The dominant model of slavery defines it as an involuntary status, in which people—according to the liberal model of ownership—were reduced to ‘things’, able to be used, abused and even killed at will. However, this involuntary model is a modern creation, developed by abolitionists from the eighteenth century. Prior to this, being owned did not n…
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