OAPEN Library: Recent submissions
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(2025)The essay reconstructs the role of Political Philosophy and the History of Political Thought in the evolution of the ‘Cesare Alfieri’ Institute in Florence, from its foundation to the present day. Through a historical and ...
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(2025)The aim of this chapter is to reconstruct the evolution of the Cesare Alfieri tradition of economic studies from 1875, the year the School was founded, to the present day.
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(2025)Five macro-periods can be identified: the first fifty years, largely coinciding with liberal Italy and the emergence of a social question (1875-1924); the twenty-year fascist period, with the attempt to build a corporative ...
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(2025)Located at the intersection of two major trade routes, Leipzig in Saxony, Germany, became a European trading hub, presumed sensitive to economic shocks. This study examines the effects of upheavals, shocks, and trends on ...
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(2025)A new wave of empirical and data-driven studies on the history of social mobility in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period has been emerging in recent years. This trend bears some resemblance to the wave of historical ...
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(2025)This paper illustrates the sources and methods for reconstructing social mobility in the rural communities of the Republic of Venice, focusing on the territory of Vicenza. Vicenza was consistently subject to neighbouring ...
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(2025)Preindustrial social mobility is still primarily understudied in present times. Most preindustrial and early-industrial social mobility research focused strictly on occupational mobility, not fully capturing the substantial ...
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(2025)This paper examines social and economic mobility in the Crown of Aragon in the long term. It is divided into three main sections. The first deals with the processes of social mobility linked to both the colonisation of ...
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(2025)This chapter deals with the sources and methodologies available to study dynamics of social mobility in Late Medieval Crown of Aragon. We discuss the strengths and limitations of three different kind of sources: fiscal ...
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(2025)This article explores intergenerational social mobility in the preindustrial era, analyzing data from France, Germany, and Sweden. Using uniform coding schemes (HISCO, HISCLASS, HISCAM), the study examines total, upward, ...
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(2025)This article surveys and discusses the available literature on socio-economic mobility in preindustrial societies. Beginning with the mobility-promoting impact of the Black Death, the article explores more generally how ...
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(2025)The comments made at the round table focused first of all on the sources (fiscal, notarial and other) and methodology (the necessary combination of quantitative and qualitative approaches, including prosopography and ...
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(2025)This brief article expands on the Prolusion given to the LV Settimana Datini, clarifying some additional aspects and proposing a few examples of upward socio-economic mobility. Particular attention is given to two topics: ...
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(2025)This contribution examines the nexus between literacy and social mobility during the late medieval period. Proceeding from an analysis of autobiographical Italian primary sources, it concentrates on patterns of presentation ...
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(2025)This paper focuses on studying the agricultural credit system and its impact on social mobility and economic changes in Catalonia, especially in the Empordà area, during the late 18th century. It analyzes how indebtedness ...
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Chapter Peaceful conquest or skilful adaptation? The rise of genoese merchants in Aragon (1580-1620)(2025)This study analyses the strategies used by Genoese merchants to control trade and credit in Aragon between 1580 and 1620 without arousing social opposition, unlike the French merchants in the rest of the seventeenth century. ...
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(2025)This study explores social mobility in Tuscany from the Middle Ages to the Modern Age, focusing on the methodologies and interdisciplinary perspectives that have renewed interest in this historiographical theme. Building ...
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(2025)This study examines socio-economic mobility and marriage alliances in sixteenth-century Venetian Crete, focusing on the Curcumeli family from the middle social stratum (cittadini). It analyzes the marital strategies and ...
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(2025)In the troubled period of the Late Middle Ages, the Burgundian vineyards and Dijon experienced great changes. The secular rise in wages allowed winegrowers to gain economic autonomy. The exceptional richness of the Burgundian ...
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(2025)The article aims to highlight and analyze the sources relevant to the reconstruction of social mobility in Southern Piedmont during the 16th and 17th centuries, with specific reference to the Tortona area, which belonged ...
