The effects of plague on the distribution of property: Ivrea, Northern Italy 1630

被引:33
作者
Alfani, Guido [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Bocconi, Mainz, Germany
来源
POPULATION STUDIES-A JOURNAL OF DEMOGRAPHY | 2010年 / 64卷 / 01期
关键词
plague; epidemic; mortality crisis; recovery; population dynamics; property dynamics; inequalities; Early Modern Age; inheritance; socio-economic structures;
D O I
10.1080/00324720903448712
中图分类号
C921 [人口统计学];
学科分类号
030302 [人口学];
摘要
The demographic effects of the epidemics of plague in Early Modern Europe and their economic consequences illuminate the evolution of property structures and of wealth distribution during and after a mortality crisis. An analysis of the high-quality data available for the Italian city of Ivrea at the time of the 1630 plague shows the exceptional resilience of property structures. Like the social structures of the period, property structures were able to recover quickly, informed as they were by the lessons learnt by trial and error by the patrician families of the late Middle Ages, whose patrimonies had been badly damaged by the Black Death. In a period of recurrent catastrophes that struck European populations during the Old Demographic Regime, apparently 'inegalitarian' institutions seem to have had long-term 'egalitarian' effects.
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页码:61 / 75
页数:15
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