Tuscans and Their Families: A Study of the Florentine Catasto of 1427

by David Herlihy, Christiane Klapisch-Zuber

Overview

This work analyzes and considers the significance of the Catasto, the impressive and exhaustive census undertaken by Florence in 1427. This digital edition was derived from ACLS Humanities E-Book's online version of the same title.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781597405157
Publisher:	ACLS Humanities E-Book
Publication date:	11/07/2008
Pages:	436
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.89(d)

Editorial Reviews

This is the translation of a major work published in Paris in 1978: it demonstrates the possibilities and the limitations of a certain sort of history. The Florentine catasto of 1427 supplies the authors with the means of analysing the Tuscan population so far as a tax survey can permit. Statistics are furnished on settlement, wealth, population movements, birth, marriage, death, the agepyramid, the distribution of the sexes and the structure of the family.

The English Historical Review, Vol. 103, No. 406 (Jan., 1988) - J. N. Stephens

For scholars who will use Tuscans and their Families it is important to keep in mind that both the strength of the work and some potential problems lie in the authors' enormous respect for the catasto document itself. They not only treat the catasto as an extraordinarily consequential, newly explored record, but they analyze other better known contemporary texts in the light of its data

The Journal of Economic History, Vol. 45, No. 3 (Sep., 1985) - Susan Mosher Stuard