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Economic inequality in the rural Southern Low Countries during the fifteenth century : sources, data and reflections Universiteit Gent
Feeding inequalities: the role of economic inequalities and the urban market in late medieval food security. The case of fourteenth-century Ghent Universiteit Antwerpen
Welfare and demography in the time of Malthus. Regional and local variations in poor relief and population developments in Flanders, c. 1750-1810 Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Flanders represents a particularly interesting region for research that aims to investigate the development of socio-economic inequalities at the local and regional level. The relationship between and effects of structural socio-economic characteristics on the one hand and micro-level variations on the other hand remain unclear. The data collected by the STREAM project (streamproject.ugent.be) together with its tailored geographical information ...
Socio-economic inequalities in fifteenth-century Tuscany : the role of the mezzadria system Universiteit Gent
The past and recent research on the florentine fiscal surveys from 14th to 18th c. has highly contributed to the current debate on economic inequality in pre-industrial times. Showing an increasing unequal wealth distribution also for rural and urban Tuscany, characterised by economic stagnation in Early Modern times, it has allowed us to disentangle the effect of economic growth on inequality. However, a wide set of explanatory hypotheses of ...
'I nostri contadini solevano istare molto meglio per lo addrieto che ora' : mezzadria, proprietà cittadina e disuguaglianza economica in Toscana, sec. XV-XVI Universiteit Gent
This paper studies through a quantitative analysis at micro-scale (the pieve of San Giovanni in Petroio in Mugello) in 1427-1512 the relation between the growing economic inequality of the Florentine rural society found by recent research and a peculiar share-cropping system, the mezzadria. By focusing on the mechanisms of wealth redistribution of this system, the paper suggests the role of mezzadria whether in increasing in the long-run the ...
La disuguaglianza ieri e oggi KU Leuven
Welfare and demography in the time of Malthus : regional and local variations in poor relief and population developments in Flanders, c. 1750-1810 Universiteit Gent
Transforming space Vrije Universiteit Brussel
This book is about the often-ignored spatial dynamism of pre-modern towns: the interaction between city life and urban space, as it was adapted to new conditions, slowly or more radically.
The spatial development within cities is the response to social-economic processes and political decisions, but is at the same time determining these processes. In this volume the morphology of cities is analyzed on different levels of scale: from the ...
The spatial development within cities is the response to social-economic processes and political decisions, but is at the same time determining these processes. In this volume the morphology of cities is analyzed on different levels of scale: from the ...
Transforming space. Visible and invisible changes in premodern European cities - introduction Vrije Universiteit Brussel
This is the introduction to the volume