Social mobility in the pre-industrial era has become a key topic in historiographical debate, with implications for the present. This volume examines the sources, methods, and dynamics of the phenomenon through both quantitative and qualitative approaches. The collection is structured into six areas: study methodologies, links with economic growth and inequality, geographical and demographic mobility, the impact of family structures and inheritance systems, dynamics of social decline, and the perception of mobility. The use of interdisciplinary tools provides new perspectives on understanding social trajectories in the past.
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Francesco Ammannati
Misurare la mobilità sociale in Toscana tra Medioevo ed Età Modernapp.23-47
Benedetta Maria Crivelli
La mobilità occupazionale a Verona tra tardo Medioevo ed Età Moderna: fonti e questioni metodologichepp.49-75
Matteo Di Tullio
La mobilità sociale a Bergamo tra tardo Medioevo ed Età Moderna: fonti e metodi d’indaginepp.77-100
Luciano Maffi
La mobilità sociale nel Basso Piemonte durante la prima Età Moderna. Gli estimi del territorio di Tortona: fonti e metodi d’indaginepp.101-117
Mattia Viale
The estimi of the Republic of Venice as a resource for studying social mobility in rural areas during the pre-industrial erapp.119-131
Albert Reixach Sala, Pau Viciano
Social mobility in the towns and countryside of Late Medieval Crown of Aragon (c. 1300- c. 1550): sources and methodological approachespp.133-171
Marco H.D. van Leeuwen, Ineke Maas
Social class mobility in the early modern Europe: a first international comparisonpp.175-203
Jan Michael Goldberg
Transformation of urban occupational structure and mobility (Leipzig, 1550-1850)pp.205-246
José Antonio Mateos Royo
Peaceful conquest or skilful adaptation? The rise of genoese merchants in Aragon (1580-1620)pp.247-272
David Carvajal de la Vega, Hilario Casado Alonso, Vanesa Abarca Abarca
An approach to inequality and social mobility in Northern Castile (fifteenth and sixteenth centuries)pp.273-305
Alberto Concina, Maïka De Keyzer, Jan Peeters
Economic growth and prosperity: two sides of the same coin? A comparison of the countryside of Antwerp and Piedmont in the long eighteenth centurypp.307-327
Wouter Ronsijn, Wouter Ryckbosch
Income and wealth mobility in the smaller towns of the late medieval and early modern Low Countries: an exploratory analysispp.329-355
Sonia Schifano, Tiago Ferreira Flores, Antoine Paccoud
Inequality in pre-industrial Luxembourg (1766-1842): comparing the effects of the end of feudalism in rural and urban areaspp.357-375
Antoni Furió, Carlos Laliena Corbera, Pere Verdés Pijuan
Social mobility, economic growth and inequality in the late medieval Crown of Aragon (Aragón, Catalonia, Valencia and Mallorca, 13th-15th centuries)pp.379-418
Gabriel Brea-Martínez, Joana-Maria Pujadas-Mora
Socioeconomic mobility and inequality persistence. The area of Barcelona, 16th-19th centuriespp.419-437
Hannelore Pepke
La mobilité sociale ascendante des vignerons dijonnais dans le contexte d’une crise multiforme à la fin du Moyen Age (XIVe-XVe siècles)pp.439-460
Mattia Fochesato, Francesco Bettarini
A new method of expanding the reconstruction of the occupational structure in Renaissance Florence: A preliminary investigation with insights into the economic impact of political and economic changespp.461-475
Gabriel Ramon-Molins
Prosperare a credito, rovinarsi con i debiti: l'indebitamento come catalizzatore della mobilità sociale nel nord della Catalogna (1785-1800)pp.479-491
Aristea Gratsea
Marriage alliances and socio-economic mobility in Venetian Crete (16th century)pp.493-522
Josep Mas-Ferrer
Female social mobility in an impartible inheritance society at the end of the pre-industrial era (north-eastern Catalonia, 1750-1825)pp.523-538
Sabrina Corbellini
Reading and writing for success: literacy, knowledge and social mobilitypp.539-556
Wouter Ryckbosch
Towards a new history of old mobility: obstacles and prospectspp.569-579
Book Title
La mobilità sociale nelle società preindustriali: tendenze, cause ed effetti (secc. XIII-XVIII) / Social mobility in pre-industrial societies: tendencies, causes and effects (13th-18th centuries)
Editors
Angela Orlandi
Peer Reviewed
Number of Pages
612
Publication Year
2025
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Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0667-9
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979-12-215-0666-2
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979-12-215-0668-6
Series Title
Datini Studies in Economic History
Series ISSN
2975-1241
Series E-ISSN
2975-1195