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) Angela Orlandi University of Florence, Italy Firenze University Press Florence 2025 https://doi.org/10.36253/979-12-215-0667-9

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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.

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.

 Economic history pre-industrial era socio-economic mobility economic inequality family structures
Indice / Table of contents Social and economic mobility in preindustrial Europe FONTI E METODI / SOURCES AND METHODSMisurare la mobilità sociale in Toscana tra Medioevo ed Età ModernaLa mobilità occupazionale a Verona tra tardo Medioevo ed Età Moderna: fonti e questioni metodologicheLa mobilità sociale a Bergamo tra tardo Medioevo ed Età Moderna: fonti e metodi d’indagineLa mobilità sociale nel Basso Piemonte durante la prima Età Moderna. Gli estimi del territorio di Tortona: fonti e metodi d’indagineThe estimi of the Republic of Venice as a resource for studying social mobility in rural areas during the pre-industrial eraSocial mobility in the towns and countryside of Late Medieval Crown of Aragon (c. 1300- c. 1550): sources and methodological approaches MOBILITÀ SOCIALE, CRESCITA ECONOMICA E DISUGUAGLIANZA ECONOMICA / SOCIAL MOBILITY, ECONOMIC GROWTH AND ECONOMIC INEQUALITYSocial class mobility in the early modern Europe: a first international comparisonTransformation of urban occupational structure and mobility (Leipzig, 1550-1850)Peaceful conquest or skilful adaptation? The rise of genoese merchants in Aragon (1580-1620)An approach to inequality and social mobility in Northern Castile (fifteenth and sixteenth centuries)Economic growth and prosperity: two sides of the same coin? A comparison of the countryside of Antwerp and Piedmont in the long eighteenth centuryIncome and wealth mobility in the smaller towns of the late medieval and early modern Low Countries: an exploratory analysisInequality in pre-industrial Luxembourg (1766-1842): comparing the effects of the end of feudalism in rural and urban areas MOBILITÀ SOCIALE, MOBILITÀ GEOGRAFICA E DINAMICHE DEMOGRAFICHE / SOCIAL MOBILITY, GEOGRAPHIC MOBILITY AND DEMOGRAPHIC DYNAMICSSocial mobility, economic growth and inequality in the late medieval Crown of Aragon (Aragón, Catalonia, Valencia and Mallorca, 13th-15th centuries)Socioeconomic mobility and inequality persistence. The area of Barcelona, 16th-19th centuriesLa mobilité sociale ascendante des vignerons dijonnais dans le contexte d’une crise multiforme à la fin du Moyen Age (XIVe-XVe siècles)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 changes INTERAZIONI TRA LA MOBILITÀ SOCIALE E L’EVOLUZIONE DELLE STRUTTURE FAMILIARI E DEI SISTEMI EREDITARI / INTERACTION BETWEEN SOCIAL MOBILITY AND THE EVOLUTION OF FAMILY STRUCTURES AND INHERITANCE SYSTEMSProsperare a credito, rovinarsi con i debiti: l'indebitamento come catalizzatore della mobilità sociale nel nord della Catalogna (1785-1800)Marriage alliances and socio-economic mobility in Venetian Crete (16th century)Female social mobility in an impartible inheritance society at the end of the pre-industrial era (north-eastern Catalonia, 1750-1825)Reading and writing for success: literacy, knowledge and social mobility TAVOLA ROTONDA / ROUND TABLEIntervento alla Tavola rotondaRound table commentsTowards a new history of old mobility: obstacles and prospectsRound table comments Abstract

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