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Was writing material for to-do list accessible in medieval Europe?
The concept of a pre-modern individual is pretty dodgy. The standard medieval minimal economic unit varied from the household to the village. As shown in admittedly high medieval Christine de Pizan' …
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What is the average price, in silver, for a loaf of bread through history?
This question is unanswerable:
1) Silver is not a useful measure on the scale required: money did not exist to purchase commodities for most of the desired time scale
2) Adequate wage/price series only … become available in the mid 19th century, inadequate wage/price series only become available in the early 19th century
2a) Wage/price series are important because silver itself has a price, as discovered …
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How can prices be compared over time?
Economic history's great attempt to produce a great price/wage series for Southern England's monasteries, agricultural labourers, and modern workers failed. … So there's no way to reconstruct a wage price series beyond 1700 with any confidence. …
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