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The Economic History Review | 2009

Avoiding Tragedies: A Flemish Common and its Commoners Under the Pressure of Social and Economic Change During the Eighteenth Century

Tine De Moor

Despite the wide application of the metaphor of the tragedy of the commons, there is little historical literature that points to the weaknesses of its historical basis. There is, however, sufficient qualitative and quantitative evidence to prove that commons were well regulated and organized in order to achieve a sustainable management, that also took into account the needs and wishes of its commoners. This case study of a common in Flanders looks at the evidence for this in the eighteenth century, examining bookkeeping and other archival sources. A model that incorporates the different functions of the commons (sustainability, efficiency, and utility) is explained and applied.


The Economic History Review | 2013

Spending, Saving, or Investing? Risk Management in Sixteenth‐Century Dutch Households

Jaco Zuijderduijn; Tine De Moor

(This paper has been accepted (May 2011) for publication in the Economic History Review) In the past one of the main challenges to households was how to cope with adversity. War, plague, famine, and flood were a constant threat, and could reduce what little improvements families had made in productivity. Economic growth therefore required a means to absorb external adversities. To see how well late medieval households coped with adversity,this investigation focuses on the households of a small town and its surroundings in early modern Holland. Our findings reveal that several severe external events around 1500 had little effect on the general level or distribution of wealth, which suggests certain forms of insurance may have protected the population. The results show that households increasingly invested in capital markets rather than employ such techniques as scattered holdings and hoarding.. This fact indicates that such investment played a vital role in a household’s risk aversion strategy. The change from unproductive to more productive risk-aversion strategies also provides some clues about progress with respect to insurance during Holland’s financial revolution.


The Journal of Economic History | 2016

The European Marriage Pattern and Its Measurement

Sarah Guilland Carmichael; Alexandra de Pleijt; Jan Luiten van Zanden; Tine De Moor

We review different interpretations of the European Marriage Pattern (EMP) and explore how they relate to the discussion of the link between the EMP and economic growth. Recently Dennison and Ogilvie have argued that the EMP did not contribute to growth in Early Modern Europe. We argue that the link between the EMP and economic growth is incorrectly conceptualized. Age of marriage is not a good scale for the degree to which countries were characterized by EMP. Rather, the economic effects of the EMP should be seen in the broader context of how marriage responds to changing economic circumstance.


International Review of Social History | 2008

The Return of the Guilds: Towards a Global History of the Guilds in Pre-industrial Times *

Jan Lucassen; Tine De Moor; Jan Luiten van Zanden

The recent emergence of the sub-discipline of ‘‘global history’’, and of its branches ‘‘global economic history’’ and ‘‘global labour history’’, is probably one of the most interesting developments in the social and historical sciences. In the age of globalization the question should be asked whether it is possible to analyse and understand global patterns of social and economic change in the recent or more distant past, without taking into account the role of institutions in those developments. This


Historical methods: A journal of quantitative and interdisciplinary history | 2008

Do ut des (I Give So That You Give Back) Collaboratories as a New Method for Scholarly Communication and Cooperation for Global History

Tine De Moor; Jan Luiten van Zanden

With the growing need for large sets of data in historical science, especially now that global history and world history are the objects of increased attention, cooperation among historians has become more useful and necessary. An academic career is often not long enough to gather all the data necessary to support a hypothesis. But researchers are not always willing to share their data because developing data sets requires a great deal of time and labor. The result is that large, highly interesting data sets are often not accessible to interested colleagues. Even if colleagues are able to access the data sets, many data sets prove to be incompatible with other data sets: this is sometimes caused by incompatible data formats or database designs, other times, by a lack of metadata. The authors investigate new methods for scholarly communication and cooperation, paying special attention to collaboratories, or laboratories without walls, and what they can mean for preserving, sharing, and maintaining the quality of large data sets in the humanities and social sciences. Examples from the area of global history illustrate these points. The difficulties of setting up a collaboratory and interaction with other methods of data collection, such as data archives and data availability policy journals, and their benefit the historical sciences, are also discussed.������������������������ � ����������������������������������������������������������� ������������������������������������������������������������ ������������������������������������������������������������� ��������������������������������������������������������� �������������������������������������������������������� ���������������� ������������������������������ ����������������������������������������������������� � ������������������������� ����������������������������������������������� � ��������������� ����������������������������������� ����������������������������������� ������������������������������� ���������������������������������������� � ������������������������� ��������������������������� ��������������������������������������������� �������������������� ��������������������������������� �������������������������������� ����������������������������������������� ������������������ ��������������������������������������������� ������������������������������������������������� ������������������������������ �������������������������������� ������������������� ����������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� ��������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� ��������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� ���������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� ������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������ �������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� ���������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� �������������������������������������������������� ������������������������������������������������ ������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������ �������������������� ������������������������� ���������������������������������� �������������������������������������������������� ������������������������������������������������������������������������ ������������������������������������ ���� ������������� �������������������� ������������������������������������������������ ���������������� ����������� �������� ������� � � � � � ��� � �� � � � � � ��������������������� ������������� ������������������������� ����������������� ���������������� ������������������������������ ����������� ����


Historical methods: A journal of quantitative and interdisciplinary history | 2013

The Art of Counting: Reconstructing Numeracy of the Middle and Upper Classes on the Basis of Portraits in the Early Modern Low Countries

Tine De Moor; Jaco Zuijderduijn

Abstract In the past decades, numeracy has taken an increasingly important place in the study of human capital formation, as well as in literacy studies and studies on formal education and book production. In order to understand levels of education, scholars have recently tried to develop new ways to measure the level of education, particularly because it has since become apparent that the measures of literacy historically have not always been very accurate. To measure numeracy, population surveys have been used to show that in the past respondents who were innumerate had a tendency to state their ages as round numbers, ending in 0 or 5. Finding suitable data in the pre-modern age to analyze numeracy via age heaping is a cumbersome task, however. In this article, the authors explore the possibilities of using art, especially individual portraits in which the age of the sitter is indicated on the portrait by means of the Aetatis suae formula, as a source to study human capital formation and numeracy. This article has two main objectives that contribute to different areas of economic history as well as art history. The authors first demonstrate which criteria should be taken into account when building a database, especially for artistic artifacts. Secondly, they use the dataset to contribute to the understanding of numeracy levels among the well-to-do in the Low Countries in the early modern period. The analysis will show that womens numeracy was often even higher than that of men. Notwithstanding the high overall level of womens numeracy compared to other countries in Europe, the authors will also test the recent hypothesis put forward by Peter Földvári, Bas Van Leeuwen, and Van Jieli Leeuwen-Li that when womens ages were mentioned, they were usually reported as part of a married couple and possibly adapted to the ages husbands reported.


Continuity and Change | 2010

Participating is more important than winning : the impact of socio-economic change on commoners' participation in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Flanders

Tine De Moor

In this article the participation profile of commoners of a Flemish case-study is reconstructed in order to identify their individual motivations for using the common, in some cases even becoming a manager of that common, in some cases only just claiming membership. Nominative linkages between membership lists, book- keeping accounts and regulatory documents of the common on the one hand and censuses and marriage acts on the other allow us to explain the behaviour of the commoners. It becomes clear why some decisions were taken - for example, to dissolve a well-functioning cattle-registration system - and how these affected the resource use of the common during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The analysis explains how internal shifts in power balances amongst groups of active users and those who did not have the means or willingness to participate could jeopardize the internal cohesion of the commoners as a group.


Journal of Family History | 2014

Single, Safe, and Sorry? Explaining the Early Modern Beguine Movement in the Low Countries

Tine De Moor

The beguine movement is a most remarkable movement in the history of the Low Countries but still remains to be explained. The skewed sex ratio, diminished access to convents, and the religious revival of the late Middle Ages seem insufficient to explain the movement in the long run. I argue that the specific attitude toward women in the Low Countries that originated with the emergence of the European Marriage Pattern created a fertile and unique basis for the beguinages to develop: the beguinages may have offered women in the Low Countries safety and security in case they chose to remain single.The beguine movement is a most remarkable movement in the history of the Low Countries but still remains to be explained. The skewed sex ratio, diminished access to convents, and the religious revival of the late Middle Ages seem insufficient to explain the movement in the long run. I argue that the specific attitude toward women in the Low Countries that originated with the emergence of the European Marriage Pattern created a fertile and unique basis for the beguinages to develop: the beguinages may have offered women in the Low Countries safety and security in case they chose to remain single.


The Economic History Review | 2018

‘Because family and friends got easily weary of taking care’: a new perspective on the specialization in the elderly care sector in early modern Holland†

Anita Boele; Tine De Moor

This article investigates the causes of the remarkable growth in and specialization of elderly care institutions in the Netherlands during the early modern period, and relates these developments to a number of major changes in the household formation process, which had both a direct and an indirect impact on the need for elderly care in general and on the relationships between the elderly and next of kin (partners, children, and other family members). Some specific features of the specialization in care, such as the care provisions for couples, point towards an underlying change in these relationships, which may have resulted from a combination of factors such as neolocality, high marriage ages for both men and women, and, related to this, the small spousal age gap and large numbers of singles. In the typical nuclear household society of early modern Holland, even when children lived close enough and were financially capable to provide help, parents often still relied on extra†familial elderly care provisions. This article also argues that this practice was embedded in a persistent moral culture accentuating independence, agency, self†help, investment in the younger generation, and community, instead of putting family responsibilities first.


The Economic History Review | 2010

Girl power: the European marriage pattern and labour markets in the North Sea region in the late medieval and early modern period -super-1

Tine De Moor; Jan Luiten van Zanden

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