POSTPONED: Occupational structures and the composition of the rich in pre-industrial Italy

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• Dr Guido Alfani (Universita Bocconi, Milan)
• Wednesday 01 February 2023, 13:15-14:30
• Seminar Room 3, Faculty of History (stair access only) and online..

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Postponed due to industrial action. This talk has been moved to the Easter term, further details to follow.

During the last few years, research conducted on the Italian property tax records (estimi) has led to the identification of relatively rare cases when these sources include good-quality information about occupations across society. Combined with other, more sporadic sources, the estimi allow us to get an impression of the occupational structures prevailing in different Italian regions and epochs, from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century. Additionally, as the same sources also allow to establish the relative wealth of different households, it is possible to explore the occupations prevailing across different social-economic strata: beginning with the rich, who are those for whom we have the most complete information.

This talk is part of the Quantitative History Seminar series.

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• AUB_Cambridge Seminars
• Department of Geography
• Economic and Social History Seminars
• Quantitative History Seminar
• Seminar Room 3, Faculty of History (stair access only) and online.
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