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This paper introduces the Special Issue 'Minorities and Grain Trade in Early Modern Europe'. While an area's traditional supply circuits benefitted from satisfactory harvests and a stable food demand, minorities' contribution became crucial during crisis. Due to their commercial networks, facilities, and capital, minorities and their agents were able to cope with market disruption, especially when inflation and the reconfiguration of supply areas rendered 'traditional' grain merchants unable to face the emergency. The papers included in the Special Issue focus on the geographical and financial scope of legal grain-trading minorities' businesses and their degree of specialisation and analyse how political authorities' reliance on minorities to face food scarcity not only represented an economic opportunity for minorities but also contributed to shaping their relationship with public authorities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper addresses the trade and commercialisation of oilseed cakes (residues from the extraction of oils) and press cakes in Italy and France during the last decades of the 19th century and in the first half of the 20th century. It tries to demonstrate that the diffusion of oilseed cakes for livestock, a distinctive sign of the intensification of breeding that involved all of Europe, or as organic fertilisers, took place at the crossroads of multiple dynamics. Trade policy of the states, industrial choices and development paths of the different rural worlds help to explain the variations in timing, spatial scale and methods used. The spread of oilseed cakes confirms that the modernisation of European agriculture happened on different and interrelated fronts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study deals with the system of tenancies and sub-tenancies in the ghetto of Ancona during the 18th Century. The essay intends to show the main economic and social implications of this "hidden" reality of a peripheral city of the Papal State. More specifically, forms and mechanisms of accumulation of real estate income are analyzed, as well as the effects that such dynamics could trigger, in terms of social differentiation, acquisition of prestige and conflicts inside or outside the Jewish world. in order to pursue this objective, the symbolic meaning, the material condition of life and the specific legal and economic characteristics of living in the ghetto are examined. In the following part of the article, the case of ancona is taken into account. Starting from a quarrel already known, thanks to a pioneering study by giuseppe laras, previously unused judicial and fiscal sources are used to better understand the canons, the distribution of properties and the mechanisms of exchange, as well as the social implications. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses a conference on dairy products, territories, and markets in France and Italy held at the Maison des sciences de l'homme in Aquitaine, France, on April 1, 2016. The event was organized by university professors Corinne Marache and Philippe Meyzie and featured several speakers including professors Stefano Magagnoli, Sylvie Vabre, and Claudio Besana.

The article presents a case study of the role of Jews associated with the Università degli ebrei di Ancona (a Jewish university in Ancona, Italy) in negotiations for the release of Christian prisoners taken as slaves during fighting between Montenegro and Albania in the 18th century. Topics include the nature of slavery in the Mediterranean area, the Adriatic Sea as an area of particular conflict between Christians and Muslims, and the nature of negotiations for the manumission of slaves.

The aim of the study was to compare the short and long-term outcomes of older and younger colorectal cancer patients with advanced disease resected with a curative intent. Six hundred and ninety-two patients were analysed. Four hundred and seventy-nine patients were younger than 70 years (Group 1), and 213 were 70 years of age or above (Group 2). The overall perioperative mortality rate in the younger group was 0.8% (n = 7), as against 1.4% (n = 3) in the elderly group (p = NS). The morbidity rates were 35% and 42%, respectively (p = NS). At univariate analysis, the elderly patients had a worse overall survival compared to the younger group, when only patients undergoing postoperative chemo-radiotherapy were considered (54% vs 67% overall survival at 5 years; p = 0.03). Using logistic regression analysis, tumour stage (p < 0.0001) and radicality of surgery (p < 0.0001) correlated significantly with overall survival rates in the elderly. Colorectal surgery for malignancy can be performed safely in the elderly with acceptable morbidity and mortality rates and long-term survival.