D L Smail
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 47933 |
|---|---|
| NOME | D L Smail |
| PRENOMES | D L |
| SOBRENOME | Smail |
| ASSINATURA | SMAIL D L |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Harvard University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2232-145X |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 31 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 91 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 31 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1992 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Magdalena Coline
Response
This essay offers a response to the thought-provoking papers in this special issue on Deep Historicities. Among other things, the contribution inquires into the potential for intellectual connections between deep history and Indigenous historicity.
Interactions between Jews and Christians in Later Medieval Provence
This study uses an extensive body of archival evidence from Latin-Christian sources to explore economic and social interactions between Provençal Jews and Christians. Evidence discussed in section one indicates that the city’s Jewish and Christian communities interacted to a significant degree, and not just in the domain of moneylending. Data derived from a network analysis suggests that Jews were prominent in providing brokerage services. In the…
The Postmortem Inventory of Astrug Mosse, a Jew of Marseille (1397)
This brief essay offers a set of remarks on the postmortem inventory of a Jew from the city of Marseille who died in 1397. The inventory, which lists all the assets in the estate, had been compiled by the decedent's daughters and was then presented to the court in order to be registered. Like many inventories from the region, it proceeds room by room, and offers valuable glimpses of Jewish material culture as well as the folk ontology governing t…
Persons and Things in Marseille and Lucca, 1300–1450
In later medieval Europe, a rising tide of wealth changed the material regime and, with it, the relationships that defined the matrix of persons and things. Some of our best evidence for the changes afoot in the era can be found in the massive documentation generated by the legal institutions of the period. Featured in this chapter are household inventories and inventories of debt collection from the cities of Marseille and Lucca. Although the th…
Reflection
This contribution responds to the many insights about reuse and recycling generated by the contributors to this collection. Patterns of reuse are well known in archaeological and material-cultural circles and have been defined by a taxonomy of practices. As this collection suggests, however, it can be rewarding to apply these ideas beyond the material domain, and to think how they might help us understand the lives and afterlives of ideas, repres…
Psychology in history
This comment engages with Henley's (2020) proposal for a history of psychology that addresses important transformations in mind and behavior across all periods of humanity's deep history. To the extent that the history of psychology pays attention to the human past, Henley observes, that history is dominated by evolutionary perspectives focused on the biological changes that took place in the Pleistocene. Using the recent archaeological site of G…
The Materiality of Credit
Cette contribution revient sur la saisie de marchandises pour le paiement de la dette, l’un des nombreux mécanismes de garantie du crédit à la consommation dans l’Europe du Bas Moyen Âge. Celui-ci est présent dans toute l’économie du temps, et comme pratique de prêts sur parole ou sur gages, le crédit est assuré, in fine , sur les biens matériels. M’appuyant sur les documents qui concernent les dettes à Lucques, à la fin du Moyen Âge, je prétends…
The Inner Demons of The Better Angels of Our Nature
The Better Angels of Our Nature makes a bold contribution to the deep history of human violence. By laying out a framework for understanding this history, Steven Pinker has provided an important point of departure for all future scholarship in this area. Pinker’s depiction of violence in medieval Europe, however, includes serious misrepresentations of the historical reality of this period; his handling of the scholarship on medieval Europe raises…
On containers
You could think of these essays as six shipping containers filled with a bewildering array of goods. There are clay pots, grain silos, tombs, junk drawers, smart phones, and entire houses (round an
On containers
This forum, involving anthropologists, archaeologists and historians, lays out the theoretical groundwork for a deep history of the container. By isolating its contents from transaction, and by enabling the manipulation of time, the container serves as an engine of history
CommunicationsReviews
Journal Article Communications Get access The American Historical Review, Volume 120, Issue 4, October 2015, Pages 1605–1610, https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/120.4.1605 Published: 09 October 2015
Neurohistory in Action
A neurohistorical approach begins with the principle that the human brain is relatively plastic and therefore continuously open to developmental and cultural influences. This does not mean that we should treat the brain as a blank slate. Instead, such influences, as they interact with given brain/body systems, can generate unpredictable forward-acting effects. The phenomenon of compulsive hoarding offers a case study of a historically or cultural…
History and the “Pre”
Violence and Predation in Late Medieval Mediterranean Europe
In the full-text databases of Latin sources from Europe from the period between 400 and 1500, the Latin word for violence crops up around two thousand times, about as often as “justice” (2,400) though not as often as other interesting words like “envy” (6,000) or “vengeance” (3,800). The frequency of use of the word, adjusted for the vagaries of survival, reveals an interesting trend. From the tenth to the eleventh centuries, an age of predatory …
Deep History
Humans have always been interested in their origins, but historians have been reluctant to write about the long stretches of time before the invention of writing. In fact, the deep past was left out of most historical writing almost as soon as it was discovered. This breakthrough book, as important for readers interested in the present as in the past,brings science into history to offer a dazzling new vision of humanity across time. Team-written …
Genealogy, Ontogeny, and the Narrative Arc of Origins
History
The original subaltern
The trial of Floreta d'Ays (1403)
In 1403, a Jewish midwife, Floreta, widow of Aquinon d'Ays, was brought before the criminal court of Marseille to answer for the death in childbirth of a Christian woman. Floreta was charged with having performed a procedure that precipitated the patient's haemorrhaging and death. This is the first known case of a malpractice trial against a midwife and an unusual case of anti-Judaic sentiment in a city hitherto quite tolerant of its Jewish minor…
Day of Reckoning
In the Grip of Sacred History
EDEN lies a vast stretch of human history punctuated by compelling stories and events.'The ancestral Eve, the Out-of-Africa hypothesis, the Great Leap Forward, the settling of the Americas, the debates that rage around megafaunal extinction and the demise of the Neanderthals: all these and more have gripped the imaginations of academics and amateurs alike.If humanity is the proper subject of history, then surely the Paleolithic is part of our his…
El desmantelamiento del patrimonio. Las mujeres y los bienes en la Marsella medieval
Los historiadores y sociólogos interpretan específicamente los derechos de la mujer a los bienes y a la sucesión como una fuerza importante contra el desmantelamiento de las sociedades. En este artículo se demuestra que existieron otras formas de la movilidad de los bienes entre los sexos, en el siglo XIV, en Marsella -de la madre al hijo y del padre a la hija- y se estudia cómo la protección legal que creaban los derechos dotales constituía estr…
True Citizens
Hatred as a Social Institution in Late-Medieval Society
Imaginary Cartographies
How, in the years before the advent of urban maps, did city residents conceptualize and navigate their communities? In his strikingly original book, Daniel Lord Smail develops a new method and a new vocabulary for understanding how urban men and women thought about their personal geography. His thorough research of property records of late medieval Marseille leads him to conclude that its inhabitants charted their city, its social structure, and …
On containers
This forum, involving anthropologists, archaeologists and historians, lays out the theoretical groundwork for a deep history of the container. By isolating its contents from transaction, and by enabling the manipulation of time, the container serves as an engine of history
History and the “Pre”
Imaginary Cartographies
How, in the years before the advent of urban maps, did city residents conceptualize and navigate their communities? In his strikingly original book, Daniel Lord Smail develops a new method and a new vocabulary for understanding how urban men and women thought about their personal geography. His thorough research of property records of late medieval Marseille leads him to conclude that its inhabitants charted their city, its social structure, and …
The trial of Floreta d'Ays (1403)
In 1403, a Jewish midwife, Floreta, widow of Aquinon d'Ays, was brought before the criminal court of Marseille to answer for the death in childbirth of a Christian woman. Floreta was charged with having performed a procedure that precipitated the patient's haemorrhaging and death. This is the first known case of a malpractice trial against a midwife and an unusual case of anti-Judaic sentiment in a city hitherto quite tolerant of its Jewish minor…
On containers
You could think of these essays as six shipping containers filled with a bewildering array of goods. There are clay pots, grain silos, tombs, junk drawers, smart phones, and entire houses (round an
Neurohistory in Action
A neurohistorical approach begins with the principle that the human brain is relatively plastic and therefore continuously open to developmental and cultural influences. This does not mean that we should treat the brain as a blank slate. Instead, such influences, as they interact with given brain/body systems, can generate unpredictable forward-acting effects. The phenomenon of compulsive hoarding offers a case study of a historically or cultural…
Common Violence
History
Factions and Vengeance in Renaissance Italy. A Review Article
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Accommodating plague in medieval Marseille
Les riches archives notariales et judiciaires de Marseille nous indiquent avec quelle souplesse et imagination les habitants qui survécurent à la peste noire de 1348 s'adaptèrent à ses conséquences. Les institutions municipales, surtout les tribunaux et les études de notaires, firent face remarquablement à l'augmentation considérable du nombre de leurs dossiers. Hommes et femmes surent liquider les biens dévalués dont ils héritaient et dont ils n…
The Materiality of Credit
Cette contribution revient sur la saisie de marchandises pour le paiement de la dette, l’un des nombreux mécanismes de garantie du crédit à la consommation dans l’Europe du Bas Moyen Âge. Celui-ci est présent dans toute l’économie du temps, et comme pratique de prêts sur parole ou sur gages, le crédit est assuré, in fine , sur les biens matériels. M’appuyant sur les documents qui concernent les dettes à Lucques, à la fin du Moyen Âge, je prétends…
Violence and Predation in Late Medieval Mediterranean Europe
In the full-text databases of Latin sources from Europe from the period between 400 and 1500, the Latin word for violence crops up around two thousand times, about as often as “justice” (2,400) though not as often as other interesting words like “envy” (6,000) or “vengeance” (3,800). The frequency of use of the word, adjusted for the vagaries of survival, reveals an interesting trend. From the tenth to the eleventh centuries, an age of predatory …
Genealogy, Ontogeny, and the Narrative Arc of Origins
History
Telling Tales in Angevin Courts
The archives of Angevin Marseille, from the late thirteenth to the fifteenth centuries, house some of the richest court records extant from France in the later Middle Ages.1 In their wealth of detail, they approach the records of the Fournier inquisition and equal or surpass those of other late medieval French or Burgundian jurisdictions.2They are generous, not in sheer quantity of documentation-medieval England far surpasses most regions of cont…
Démanteler le Patrimoine. Les femmes et les biens dans la Marseille médiéval
Au début de l'année 1349, peu après la grande peste, le juriste noble Blacier de Montoliu de Marseille arrangeait le mariage de sa jeune fille Biatriseta avec le marchand aristocrate Bertran Candole. La famille de Montoliu avait une position prééminente dans la ville phocéenne. Outre les nombreux chevaliers et damoiseaux, la famille étendue comprenait trois juges, un avocat, des conseillers municipaux et, pendant un an, un syndic. Les membres de …
Predestination and the Ethos of Disinheritance in Sixteenth-Century Calvinist Theater
This paper, by using several polemical plays written by Calvinist authors in the middle decades of the sixteenth century, seeks to examine how the doctrine of predestination was presented to and understood by the Calvinist faithful in France and Switzerland. Calvinist playwrights consistently used Old Testament images to represent predestination in terms of blood descent and inheritance. The pattern of inheritance evoked, moreover, bears certain …
Factions and Vengeance in Renaissance Italy. A Review Article
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Accommodating plague in medieval Marseille
Les riches archives notariales et judiciaires de Marseille nous indiquent avec quelle souplesse et imagination les habitants qui survécurent à la peste noire de 1348 s'adaptèrent à ses conséquences. Les institutions municipales, surtout les tribunaux et les études de notaires, firent face remarquablement à l'augmentation considérable du nombre de leurs dossiers. Hommes et femmes surent liquider les biens dévalués dont ils héritaient et dont ils n…
Common Violence
History
Telling Tales in Angevin Courts
The archives of Angevin Marseille, from the late thirteenth to the fifteenth centuries, house some of the richest court records extant from France in the later Middle Ages.1 In their wealth of detail, they approach the records of the Fournier inquisition and equal or surpass those of other late medieval French or Burgundian jurisdictions.2They are generous, not in sheer quantity of documentation-medieval England far surpasses most regions of cont…
Démanteler le Patrimoine. Les femmes et les biens dans la Marseille médiéval
Au début de l'année 1349, peu après la grande peste, le juriste noble Blacier de Montoliu de Marseille arrangeait le mariage de sa jeune fille Biatriseta avec le marchand aristocrate Bertran Candole. La famille de Montoliu avait une position prééminente dans la ville phocéenne. Outre les nombreux chevaliers et damoiseaux, la famille étendue comprenait trois juges, un avocat, des conseillers municipaux et, pendant un an, un syndic. Les membres de …
Imaginary Cartographies
How, in the years before the advent of urban maps, did city residents conceptualize and navigate their communities? In his strikingly original book, Daniel Lord Smail develops a new method and a new vocabulary for understanding how urban men and women thought about their personal geography. His thorough research of property records of late medieval Marseille leads him to conclude that its inhabitants charted their city, its social structure, and …
Hatred as a Social Institution in Late-Medieval Society
El desmantelamiento del patrimonio. Las mujeres y los bienes en la Marsella medieval
Los historiadores y sociólogos interpretan específicamente los derechos de la mujer a los bienes y a la sucesión como una fuerza importante contra el desmantelamiento de las sociedades. En este artículo se demuestra que existieron otras formas de la movilidad de los bienes entre los sexos, en el siglo XIV, en Marsella -de la madre al hijo y del padre a la hija- y se estudia cómo la protección legal que creaban los derechos dotales constituía estr…
True Citizens
In the Grip of Sacred History
EDEN lies a vast stretch of human history punctuated by compelling stories and events.'The ancestral Eve, the Out-of-Africa hypothesis, the Great Leap Forward, the settling of the Americas, the debates that rage around megafaunal extinction and the demise of the Neanderthals: all these and more have gripped the imaginations of academics and amateurs alike.If humanity is the proper subject of history, then surely the Paleolithic is part of our his…
Day of Reckoning
The trial of Floreta d'Ays (1403)
In 1403, a Jewish midwife, Floreta, widow of Aquinon d'Ays, was brought before the criminal court of Marseille to answer for the death in childbirth of a Christian woman. Floreta was charged with having performed a procedure that precipitated the patient's haemorrhaging and death. This is the first known case of a malpractice trial against a midwife and an unusual case of anti-Judaic sentiment in a city hitherto quite tolerant of its Jewish minor…
The original subaltern
Deep History
Humans have always been interested in their origins, but historians have been reluctant to write about the long stretches of time before the invention of writing. In fact, the deep past was left out of most historical writing almost as soon as it was discovered. This breakthrough book, as important for readers interested in the present as in the past,brings science into history to offer a dazzling new vision of humanity across time. Team-written …
Genealogy, Ontogeny, and the Narrative Arc of Origins
History
Violence and Predation in Late Medieval Mediterranean Europe
In the full-text databases of Latin sources from Europe from the period between 400 and 1500, the Latin word for violence crops up around two thousand times, about as often as “justice” (2,400) though not as often as other interesting words like “envy” (6,000) or “vengeance” (3,800). The frequency of use of the word, adjusted for the vagaries of survival, reveals an interesting trend. From the tenth to the eleventh centuries, an age of predatory …
History and the “Pre”
Neurohistory in Action
A neurohistorical approach begins with the principle that the human brain is relatively plastic and therefore continuously open to developmental and cultural influences. This does not mean that we should treat the brain as a blank slate. Instead, such influences, as they interact with given brain/body systems, can generate unpredictable forward-acting effects. The phenomenon of compulsive hoarding offers a case study of a historically or cultural…
CommunicationsReviews
Journal Article Communications Get access The American Historical Review, Volume 120, Issue 4, October 2015, Pages 1605–1610, https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/120.4.1605 Published: 09 October 2015
The Materiality of Credit
Cette contribution revient sur la saisie de marchandises pour le paiement de la dette, l’un des nombreux mécanismes de garantie du crédit à la consommation dans l’Europe du Bas Moyen Âge. Celui-ci est présent dans toute l’économie du temps, et comme pratique de prêts sur parole ou sur gages, le crédit est assuré, in fine , sur les biens matériels. M’appuyant sur les documents qui concernent les dettes à Lucques, à la fin du Moyen Âge, je prétends…
The Inner Demons of The Better Angels of Our Nature
The Better Angels of Our Nature makes a bold contribution to the deep history of human violence. By laying out a framework for understanding this history, Steven Pinker has provided an important point of departure for all future scholarship in this area. Pinker’s depiction of violence in medieval Europe, however, includes serious misrepresentations of the historical reality of this period; his handling of the scholarship on medieval Europe raises…
On containers
You could think of these essays as six shipping containers filled with a bewildering array of goods. There are clay pots, grain silos, tombs, junk drawers, smart phones, and entire houses (round an
On containers
This forum, involving anthropologists, archaeologists and historians, lays out the theoretical groundwork for a deep history of the container. By isolating its contents from transaction, and by enabling the manipulation of time, the container serves as an engine of history
Persons and Things in Marseille and Lucca, 1300–1450
In later medieval Europe, a rising tide of wealth changed the material regime and, with it, the relationships that defined the matrix of persons and things. Some of our best evidence for the changes afoot in the era can be found in the massive documentation generated by the legal institutions of the period. Featured in this chapter are household inventories and inventories of debt collection from the cities of Marseille and Lucca. Although the th…
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