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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Probate inventories"”.
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Women at the Loom: Handweaving in Washington County, Tennessee, 1840-1860.
… County, Tennessee. The author examines probate inventories, wills, store ledgers, and census and tax materials to determine the identities of the weavers, the equipment and raw materials available to them, and the kinds of textiles that women wove. The author discusses the reasons many …
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Objects, emotions, and the household in Renaissance Prague, c.1570-1620
… of relationships. Using criminal court records, probate inventories, and surviving objects from museums, I construct narratives that imagine the emotional experiences of Prague’s inhabitants and seek to flesh out the early modern psyche. In the process, this thesis presents a new interpretation …
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The consumer and consumption in South Westmorland, circa 1700 to 1750: a Yeoman family's possessions and acquisitions
… new items across regions of the country, in probate inventories. It is now clear that understanding consumer behaviour involves more than counting the goods held at death, with lifecycle and regional influences playing a crucial part. Using these documents, the house and the extant …
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THE LAYERED SOCIETY: MATERIAL LIFE IN PORTSMOUTH, NH, 1680 TO 1740 (NEW HAMPSHIRE)
… from 1680 to 1740 through an analysis of the probate inventories of the estates of 234 males. It also details the methodology used to determine the twin biases of probate records--that people whose estates were probated were generally older and wealthier than people in the overall …
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Shops, retailing and consumption in eighteenth-century provincial England: Norwich 1660-1800
… through newspaper advertisements, trade cards, probate inventories, diaries and contemporary visual representations of the city centre. While a clear transformation was detected across the century, the evidence suggests that change was cumulative rather than a big shift at a fixed point in time. …
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GOOD WIVES: A STUDY IN ROLE DEFINITION IN NORTHERN NEW ENGLAND, 1650-1750
… of evidence from court records, account books, probate inventories, church records, paintings, embroideries, gravestones, genealogical records, captivity narratives, sermons, and the letters and diaries of husbands and sons.</p><p>The discussion is organized around three Biblical archetypes …
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Chief inhabitants and their areas of influence: local ruling groups in Essex and Suffolk parishes 1630-1720.
… by looking at personal wealth as recorded in probate inventories. It shows that a scale existed, broadly corresponding to the hierarchy displayed in the possession of local office. The owners of the newer, status-carrying items of furniture or decoration tended to be among the wealthiest group …
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Non-Bank Finance in Eighteenth-Century England
At the start of the eighteenth century, there were virtually no banks outside London. By the end, there were almost 400. Much scholarship on eighteenth-century finance has focused on the new and striking, such as the rise of banks, and, in particular, public institutions, often referred to as the …