Abstract Late medieval slavery was profoundly entangled in urban life particular. Cities all around the Mediterranean coast were implicated trade—although this article focuses on Christian which bound together by a general reliance Roman law (alongside local customary laws and canon of Church). Recently, scholarship late has proliferated, offering range detailed studies primarily based legal re...

* Work on this Article was supported by grant number HS 01539 from the National Center for Health Services Research, United States Department of Health, Education and Welfare. ** Research Attorney, Program on Legal Issues in Health Care, Duke University. A.B. 1968, University of Chicago; J.D. 1971, Harvard Law School. THE FOLLOWING CITATIONS WILL BE USED IN THIS ARTICLE: A. HOLDER, MEDICAL MALP...

This paper reports on an attempt to modify a circular knitting machine such that it would operate without the need for a customary tension system where a kinitting machine can operate without an asymmetric take-down system preliminary results appear promising and warrant further development. 

We consider why the gender division of labor is so often enforced by custom and why customary gender divisions of labor generally involve both direction and prohibition. In our formal model, agents first learn skills and then enter the marriage market. We show that wasteful behavior may emerge due to strategic incentives in specialization choice and human capital acquisition and that both probl...