{"title":"Seasonality of conceptions as a source for historical time-budget analysis: tracing the disappearance of holy days in early modern England.","authors":"H. Voth","doi":"10.1080/01615440.1994.10594228","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"It was our purpose to show how the seasonality of baptisms can be employed to assess the speed with which holy days disappeared in early modern England. In a case study of Ludlow Shropshire it was demonstrated that old Catholic holy days exercised a strong but slowly declining influence on the timing of conceptions before outbreak of the Civil War. After the Restoration no connection between the seasonality of conceptions and old feast days can be discerned. These findings lend support to De Vriess hypothesis that labor input in the English economy between 1500 and 1700 must have increased very considerably. (EXCERPT)","PeriodicalId":45535,"journal":{"name":"Historical Methods","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.6000,"publicationDate":"1994-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/01615440.1994.10594228","citationCount":"6","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Historical Methods","FirstCategoryId":"98","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01615440.1994.10594228","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"HISTORY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
It was our purpose to show how the seasonality of baptisms can be employed to assess the speed with which holy days disappeared in early modern England. In a case study of Ludlow Shropshire it was demonstrated that old Catholic holy days exercised a strong but slowly declining influence on the timing of conceptions before outbreak of the Civil War. After the Restoration no connection between the seasonality of conceptions and old feast days can be discerned. These findings lend support to De Vriess hypothesis that labor input in the English economy between 1500 and 1700 must have increased very considerably. (EXCERPT)
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Historical Methodsreaches an international audience of social scientists concerned with historical problems. It explores interdisciplinary approaches to new data sources, new approaches to older questions and material, and practical discussions of computer and statistical methodology, data collection, and sampling procedures. The journal includes the following features: “Evidence Matters” emphasizes how to find, decipher, and analyze evidence whether or not that evidence is meant to be quantified. “Database Developments” announces major new public databases or large alterations in older ones, discusses innovative ways to organize them, and explains new ways of categorizing information.