OAPEN Library: Recent submissions
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(2024)Coastal lagoons, such as Mar Menor, hold significant ecological importance but are vulnerable to environmental disruptions from resource exploitation. Continuous monitoring is crucial for understanding critical situations ...
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(2024)The Hellenic Lighthouse Network (HLN) is one of the most historic and best organized coastal and open sea lighting systems across the world. Greek traditional built lighthouses and beacons are perceived as an integral part ...
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(2025)This article examines land ownership among Valencian peasants as a means of addressing internal wealth inequalities. Using a sample of 191 probate inventories from 1283 to 1400, we provide evidence of the number of plots ...
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(2025)The beauty of the Italian cities of the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries would not have been built without a sort of large consensus. This beauty was built with public funds, protected by regulations designed ...
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(2025)The chapter discusses the characteristics, dynamics and evolution of socio-economic inequalities during the fourteenth-century conjuncture, integrating the main findings of the essays of this edited volume with further ...
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(2025)The Great Famine of 1315-7 is one of the key moments in the social and economic history of Northern Europe during the late Middle Ages. The adverse weather conditions of 1315-6 combined with high demographic pressures ...
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(2025)This article uses data on participation in the priorate in the fourteenth century to analyze the change over time in the intensity and nature of the processes of social mobility in Florence. It is a small experiment that ...
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(2025)England c. 1300 was clearly an unequal society, yet assessing its distribution of wealth and income and levels of poverty with precision is not straightforward. Households earned their living by combining different sources ...
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(2025)The so-called ‘medieval economic revolution’ (twelfth-fourteenth centuries) also saw the emergence and spread of theological, economic and political languages that analysed, interpreted and judged the social and market ...
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(2025)This article examines the unequal organisation of the grain market in the Low Countries in the fourteenth century. It looks in turn at the ways in which several towns compensated for their difficulties in accessing food ...
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(2025)Two data points suffice to identify the links between hospitals and social needs at the height of medieval economic growth. The first is the direct responsibility assumed by municipal governments in the field of assistance, ...
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(2025)The fourteenth century was a tumultuous period. Europe was disrupted by frequent uprisings. Historians attribute these events to rising inequality. Conversely, the impact of medieval revolts on inequality has remained ...
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(2025)The paper presents the first statistically up-to-date analysis of economic inequality in early fourteenth-century Siena and in three rural settlements by integrating an existing database with a selected study of the Tavola ...
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(2025)The city of Tortosa was one of the most important urban centres in late medieval Catalonia, mainly thanks to its river port, which linked the Iberian interior to the Mediterranean trade networks. In the archives of Tortosa ...
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(2025)This article studies economic inequality in late medieval Iberia, from the mid-thirteenth century to the end of the fifteenth century, based on three observatories – Olite, Oriola and Vera – located in the north and southeast ...
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(2025)The fundamental inequality in Western societies is rooted in the position of those who are exposed to the risks inherent in economic life, even in a context of global growth. These risks create permanent insecurity, while ...
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(2025)The paper concerns the use of archaeological sources and methods as tools for understanding some specific economic and social developments of the fourteenth century. Since the changes that occurred during this period seem ...
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(2025)The abandonment of the long-term agricultural contracts, practically lifelong and hereditary, characteristic of the early Middle Ages, and the emergence of short-term mezzadria (sharecropping), the expression of a different ...
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(2025)How could the presence of robust nuclei of wealth be reconciled in Italian city-communes with the government of a popular “res publica” which was intended to be based on social peace? What were the effects of the anti-magnates ...
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(2025)In the historical period between the last decades of the thirteenth century and the first half of the fourteenth century, famine was one of the basic forms of inequality; in the economic systems of those times, which were ...
