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 powers during the Middle Ages, fostering the development of rural communities that gradually gained significant autonomy from the provincial city. Venice recognized and promoted this autonomy after taking control of the Mainland in the early fifteenth century. Tax collection was largely entrusted to local communities, which had considerable freedom in managing their tax registers. Some of these registers, characterized by annual revisions, allow us to analyse social mobility with high detail and precision through methodologies developed within the SMITE project.
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Chapter Title
The estimi of the Republic of Venice as a resource for studying social mobility in rural areas during the pre-industrial era
Authors
Mattia Viale
Language
English
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0667-9.08
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Publication Year
2025
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Book Title
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)
Editors
Angela Orlandi
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Number of Pages
612
Publication Year
2025
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© 2025 Author(s)
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Publisher Name
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0667-9
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979-12-215-0666-2
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979-12-215-0667-9
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979-12-215-0668-6
Series Title
Datini Studies in Economic History
Series ISSN
2975-1241
Series E-ISSN
2975-1195