Later Medieval Psychology

The hospitals of later medieval London.

IN her study of the medieval hospitals of England, composed at the beginning of this century, Rotha M. Clay drew attention to the involvement of municipal and civic authorities throughout the country in the endowment and management of hospitals run for the benefit of the local community. "It was", she wrote, "undoubtedly the townsfolk who were the principal founders of the fourteenth and fiftee...

Plague mortality and demographic depression in later medieval England.

Both direct and indirect evidence implies that England experienced a lengthy period of stagnant or declining population during the later fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. The Black Death of 1348-1349 had brought about profound changes in England's agrarian economy, and this subsequent demographic depression is most commonly interpreted by historians as the result of plague mortality, recurrin...

Concrete contexts of morphosyntactic change: Evidence from Later Medieval Greek

700 Years Later: Using Multimedia to Bring the Stories of Medieval Asian Scrolls to Today's Students

Weak Object Pronoun Placement in Later Medieval Greek: Intralinguistic Parameters Affecting Variation

This paper presents some results from an in-depth analysis of the phenomenon of variation in weak object pronoun placement in Later Medieval Greek, focusing on the language-internal parameters that affect the variation. The findings reveal a complex pattern of variation that cannot be fully understood at this stage, and pose interesting questions for further investigation.