Thijs Lambrecht

Seigneurial institutions and Holland's seventeenth‐century miracle

Abstract This article revisits the claim that Holland owed much of its seventeenth‐century efflorescence to the absence of feudal constraints on its economy. Because Holland was relatively late to develop in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, it supposedly missed the European Fe...

Consumption and marrow extraction in 14th century Oudenaarde (Belgium): a zooarchaeological study of a late medieval cattle assemblage

This study reports on a late medieval collection of faunal remains from a pit in the historical centre of Oudenaarde (Belgium), which was characterized by a peculiar predominance of cattle mandibles. To investigate the human activities leading to the accumulation of this assembla...