<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Professions on Marginalia</title><link>https://sguzman.github.io/marginalia/tags/professions/</link><description>Recent content in Professions on Marginalia</description><generator>Hugo</generator><language>en-us</language><lastBuildDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://sguzman.github.io/marginalia/tags/professions/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>What Knowledge Was Worth: Office, Patronage, and Technical Power in Europe, c.1100–1850</title><link>https://sguzman.github.io/marginalia/research/prestige-economy-of-knowledge-in-early-modern-europe-c-1100-c-1850/</link><pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://sguzman.github.io/marginalia/research/prestige-economy-of-knowledge-in-early-modern-europe-c-1100-c-1850/</guid><description>A source-audited history of how European institutions converted different forms of knowledge into office, jurisdiction, property, patronage, clients, corporate recognition, and technical-state careers from c.1100 to c.1850. Rejects a simple law-to-mathematics succession in favor of multiple, overlapping prestige exchange rates.</description></item></channel></rss>