HIS 1101: Introduction to Historical Studies

When searching databases for articles, you will learn how to craft a search using the best keywords. Once you have a decent set of results, you will need to quickly analyze them to determine their worth for your needs. Instead of reading the entire article, you can look at several factors to help determine if it is worth looking at more closely.

This is a search in Historical Abstracts, based on "Medieval," "English," "Society OR Culture." The results were save into Zotero and the whole process took about 90 seconds. You can take a bit more time and delete the DOI (digital object identifier) URLs because historians don't use those as much as scientists do (so far). Most of the links in Historical Abstracts work fine, but you will see some do not.

Results:

Alexander, Dominic. “London’s Lost Revolution: William Longbeard and the Historiography of Medieval England.” Science & Society 84, no. 3 (July 2020): 316–41. https://doi.org/10.1521/siso.2020.84.3.316. GOOD

Bailey, Anne E. “‘The Rich and the Poor, the Lesser and the Great’: Social Representations of Female Pilgrims in Medieval England.” Cultural & Social History 11, no. 1 (March 2014): 9–29. https://doi.org/10.2752/147800414X13802176314401.GOOD

Bell, Adrian R., Chris Brooks, and Helen Killick. “Medieval Property Investors, ca. 1300–1500.” Enterprise & Society 20, no. 3 (September 2019): 575–612. https://doi.org/10.1017/eso.2018.92.  QUESTIONABLE Not so much a history journal

Brown, A. T. “The Fear of Downward Social Mobility in Late Medieval England.” Journal of Medieval History 45, no. 5 (December 2019): 597–617. https://doi.org/10.1080/03044181.2019.1660206. GOOD

———. “Town Courts and Urban Society in Late Medieval England, 1250–1500.” Economic History Review 73, no. 2 (May 2020): 595–96. https://doi.org/10.1111/ehr.12973. GOOD

Carrel, H. “Disputing Legal Privilege: Civic Relations with the Church in Late Medieval England.” Journal of Medieval History 35, no. 3 (September 2009): 279–96. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmedhist.2009.06.001. GOOD

Casson, Catherine, and Mark Casson. “‘To Dispose of Wealth in Works of Charity’: Entrepreneurship and Philanthropy in Medieval England.” Business History Review 93, no. 3 (September 2019): 473–502. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007680519000874.  GOOD Although you have to decide if business history is the direction you want

Claridge, Jordan, and John Langdon. “Storage in Medieval England: The Evidence from Purveyance Accounts, 1295-13491.” Economic History Review 64, no. 4 (November 2011): 1242–65. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0289.2010.00564.x.  GOOD Top-rated journal, but you have to decide if economic history is the direction you want

Dyer, Christopher. “Poverty and Its Relief in Late Medieval England.” Past & Present 216, no. 1 (August 2012): 41–78. https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gts016. GOOD top-rated journal

French, Katherine L. “Maidens’ Lights and Wives’ Stores: Women’s Parish Guilds in Late Medieval England.” Sixteenth Century Journal 29, no. 2 (Summer 1998): 399. https://doi.org/10.2307/2544523. GOOD

Hammer, Carl I. Jr. “The Mobility of Skilled Labor in Late Medieval England: Some Oxford Evidence.” Vierteljahrschrift Fuer Sozial Und Wirtschaftsgeschichte VSWG 63, no. 2 (February 1976): 194–210.  QUESTIONABLE Check language.

Hare, John. “Inns, Innkeepers and the Society of Later Medieval England, 1350–1600.” Journal of Medieval History 39, no. 4 (December 2013): 477–97. https://doi.org/10.1080/03044181.2013.833132. GOOD

Hudson, John. “Law and Society in Later Medieval England and Ireland: Essays in Honour of Paul Brand, Ed. Travis R. Baker.” English Historical Review 134, no. 571 (December 2019): 1524–26. https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/cez307.  GOODTop-rated journal (plus they published Dr. Key!)

Kerr, Sarah. “Collective Living and Individual Identities in Late Medieval England.” Archaeological Journal 177, no. 1 (January 2020): 83–98. https://doi.org/10.1080/00665983.2019.1623487.  GOODAlthough you might check if you follow the archaeological/scientific language

McKelvie, Gordon. “Political Society in Later Medieval England: A Festschrift for Christine Carpenter.” Parliamentary History (Wiley-Blackwell) 36, no. 2 (June 2017): 246–48. https://doi.org/10.1111/1750-0206.12275. GOOD

Olszowy-Schlanger, Judith. “« Israël et Nations Du Monde » : Loi et Identité Dans Les Formules Des Actes Juifs Médiévaux.” “Israel and the Nations of the World”: Law and Identity in the Formulae of Medieval Jewish Documents. 234, no. 2 (April 2017): 255–71. https://doi.org/10.4000/rhr.8737. QUESTIONABLE Check language.

Reynolds, Andrew. “Lineage, Genealogy and Landscape: A High-Resolution Archaeological Model for the Emergence of Supra-Local Society from Early Medieval England.” World Archaeology 50, no. 1 (March 2018): 121–36. https://doi.org/10.1080/00438243.2018.1500303. QUESTIONABLE Perhaps more about the archaeological model than about history

Richardson, Gary. “A Tale of Two Theories: Monopolies and Craft Guilds in Medieval England and Modern Imagination.” Journal of the History of Economic Thought 23, no. 2 (June 2001): 217–42. https://doi.org/10.1080/10427710120049237.  GOOD Although you might consider how much intellectual history/economic thought you want to study

Rosser, Gervase. “Going to the Fraternity Feast: Commensality and Social Relations in Late Medieval England.” Journal of British Studies 33, no. 4 (October 1994): 430. https://doi.org/10.1086/386064.  GOOD Top-rated journal (plus they published Dr. Key!)

胡芷妡. “單身非邊緣──試析三十份中古晚期倫敦未婚女性遺囑.” At the Margins of Society? Single Women and Their Wills in Late Medieval London. 26, no. 4 (December 2015): 185–226.  Questionable Check language.