A Slice of Life: Selected Documents of Medieval English Peasant Experience

Since the audience for this text is assumed to be primarily students of medieval history, nothing from a specifically literary text has been included. Further, since archaeology deals in artifacts and other physical remains, it is impractical to supply material from that discipline. Therefore, only material from record sources is provided . . . These are the only written materials that permit some measure of personalized contact with specific men and women from the past, so this gives them a special importance. - from the Introductionhttps://scholarworks.wmich.edu/mip_teamsdp/1002/thumbnail.jp

Considering Parental Hearing Status as a Social Determinant of Deaf Population Health: Insights from Experiences of the \ Dinner Table Syndrome\

The influence of early language and communication experiences on lifelong health outcomes is receiving increased public health attention. Most deaf children have non-signing hearing parents, and are at risk for not experiencing fully accessible language environments, a possible factor underlying known deaf population health disparities. Childhood indirect family communication-such as spontaneous conversations and listening in the routine family environment (e.g. family meals, recreation, car rides)-is an important source of health-related contextual learning opportunities. The goal of this study was to assess the influence of parental hearing status on deaf people\u27s recalled access to childhood indirect family communication. We analyzed data from the Rochester Deaf Health Survey-2013 (n = 211 deaf adults) for associations between sociodemographic factors including parental hearing status, and recalled access to childhood indirect family communication. Parental hearing status predicted deaf adults\u27 recalled access to childhood indirect family communication (χ2 = 31.939, p \u3c .001). The likelihood of deaf adults reporting sometimes to never for recalled comprehension of childhood family indirect communication increased by 17.6 times for those with hearing parents. No other sociodemographic or deaf-specific factors in this study predicted deaf adults\u27 access to childhood indirect family communication. This study finds that deaf people who have hearing parents were more likely to report limited access to contextual learning opportunities during childhood. Parental hearing status and early childhood language experiences, therefore, require further investigation as possible social determinants of health to develop interventions that improve lifelong health and social outcomes of the underserved deaf population

Development of an artificial foot enabling the simulation of the natural behaviour of the human unroll of the foot during walking and running

From 3rd Congress of the International Foot and Ankle Biomechanics Community Sydney, Australia. 11-13 April 201

Governing England through the Manor Courts, c.1550-1850

Using records from 113 manors in Yorkshire and elsewhere, this article surveys the changing role of manor courts in English local government over three centuries. These institutions allowed juries of established tenants to deal cheaply and easily with a variety of chronic concerns, including crime, migration, retailing, common lands, and infrastructure. Their focus varied significantly according to region, topography, settlement size, and time period, but active courts existed in most parts of the country throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Ultimately, they had many valuable functions which historians have barely begun to explore. This article thus offers the most systematic analysis to date of the role of these institutions in making and enforcing by-laws in this period, showing that many of the courts evolved to suit the changing priorities of local tenants rather than falling rapidly into ruin as has sometimes been assumed

A Fifteenth-Century London Chaplain and his Colleagues

The fifteenth century is often given credit for the death of English serfdom. This case study of the son of a serf demonstrates the powerful role family ties and ocher social networks could play in providing male serfs with alternatives to the lifestyle of their forefathers. Richard Berenger was the son of a Huntingdonshire serf who emigrated to London, where he made his living as a chaplain. Richard Berenger\u27s will, composed in 1455, and manorial records from Ramsey Abbey encourage speculation regarding his career path, social networks, and motivations for entering the priesthood. A sample of other London wills enables comparisons with a group of men whose specific life stories are less accessible than is Richard\u27s