The chapter offers a micro-historical analysis of the consequences that a key institutional change (a restriction in the access to the local commons) had on social networks. The case studied is the rural town of Nonantola in northern Italy, 1450-1800 ca. The chapter shows that limiting the access to the commons created within the community two distinct groups which not only enjoyed unequal economic conditions, but also tended to develop into two ever more separate and distinctive social networks. The chapter also pioneers the use of the information about the selection of baptismal godparents as one way to reconstruct social networks.
Closing a network: a tale of not-so-common lands (Nonantola, sixteenth to eighteenth centuries)
ALFANI, GUIDO
2015
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The chapter offers a micro-historical analysis of the consequences that a key institutional change (a restriction in the access to the local commons) had on social networks. The case studied is the rural town of Nonantola in northern Italy, 1450-1800 ca. The chapter shows that limiting the access to the commons created within the community two distinct groups which not only enjoyed unequal economic conditions, but also tended to develop into two ever more separate and distinctive social networks. The chapter also pioneers the use of the information about the selection of baptismal godparents as one way to reconstruct social networks.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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