Matteo Manfredini
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 127965 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Matteo Manfredini |
| NOMBRES | Matteo |
| APELLIDO | Manfredini |
| FIRMA | MANFREDINI M |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Parma |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7377-5921 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 50 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 113 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 50 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1994 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
A New Source for the Study of Unexplored Aspects of the Italian Health Transition
This paper introduces a new source for the study of mortality and the health transition in Italy: the Burial Permits. In the years leading up to the Italian Unification, local authorities began requiring official documentation, compiled by medical officers, for the burial of individuals in local cemeteries. These documents, preserved in the form of single sheets or registers, contain a wealth of individual-level data on deceased people, including…
Land Inequality and Demographic Outcomes
Landed vs landless: a poor interpretative framework of demographic patterns • Land access is associated with specific demographic mechanisms • Control over marriage and selective migration as regulators of household size • Higher vulnerability and sensitiveness of day laborers to short-term stress In pre-industrial rural Italy, the disparities among smallholders, sharecroppers, and day laborers were starkly defined by their unequal access to land…
A large-scale study on the seasonality of marriages (Italy 1810–12)
This article addresses the topic of marriage seasonality in Italy during the early 19th century. Our goal is to explore the links between the seasonal distribution of weddings and the country’s various territorial contexts. By doing so, we aim to deepen our understanding of how marriage practices intersected with environmental, economic, and religious factors. The data are collected at the municipal level from the Napoleonic Civil Registers in th…
Not only cold but also heat
Consideration of weather and the environment is becoming increasingly prominent in the field of historical demography. Early studies on infant mortality have paved the way for this type of analysis, shedding light on the significant impact of cold weather conditions on child survival. However, recent research on contemporary populations has drawn attention to the increased risk of adverse birth outcomes due to maternal exposure to heat during pre…
Chest circumference and structural and short-term changes
The aim of this study is to demonstrate the utility of chest circumference measurements as a proxy for the socioeconomic characteristics of past populations. Our analysis is based on over 80,000 military medical examinations relating to Friuli (north-eastern Italy), recorded from 1881 to 1909. Chest circumference can be used to describe changes in standard of living, but also seasonal variations in food intakes and physical activities. The findin…
Maternal nutritional status and offspring childlessness
The role of maternal nutrition in affecting offspring fertility, through alteration of foetal programming, has been demonstrated in animal-based experiments. However, results from human populations appear inconsistent and sometimes contradictory, likely because they have been based on single famine events. In this paper, we adopt a different approach. We combine official annual time series of daily nutrient availability with a sample of women's r…
The Spanish flu and the health system
The gravity of the Spanish flu has been often associated with inadequate health systems. However, few studies have used health data effectively in their analysis of epidemics
The Contrasting Effects of Education on Fertility over Time Casalguidi, 1819–1960
Education has been frequently claimed to shape demographic outcomes. Mortality, fertility, and nuptiality have all been attested to be affected to some extent by education attainment. This article investigates the effects of education on fertility over time in a rural Italian community once controlled for potential confounders. Using individual-level data drawn from various sources, the study analyzes the role of education in shaping reproductive…
The Richness of Italian Historical Demography
In this paper, we present a new methodology for the reconstruction of individual life-histories based on information derived from the integration of different parish registers. This methodology makes it possible to associate the sequence and timing of demographic events not only with the structural features of the households in which they occurred, but also with more general historical context and the economic factors that shaped the lives of peo…
Mortalité maternelle en Italie. Évolution et différences territoriales, 1887-1955
Les différences régionales ont toujours été présentes dans l’histoire socioéconomique de l’Italie, et elles ont profondément marqué la démographie de chaque région. La mortalité maternelle compte parmi ces différences, dans son rapport aux dépenses de santé publique, aux sages femmes, au rôle social de la femme, à l’analphabétisme et l’incroyance en la science médicale, et au statut socioéconomique. Le but de cet article est précisément d’éclaire…
Did mothers’ lives matter? The protection and promotion of maternal and infant health from the 16th to the 20th century
Did mothers’ lives matter? The protection and promotion of maternal and infant health from the 16th to the 20th century
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The effects of nutrition on maternal mortality
The role of nutrition on maternal mortality has been long debated in the historical and scientific literature. Some scholars refute any role of nutrition and diet in the decline of maternal mortality, privileging other causes such as the diffusion of professional midwifery and medical and scientific progress, while others are more open-minded about some possible nutritional effects. The present paper investigates the relationship between maternal…
Male fertility between biology and the socioeconomic context news from the past (Alghero, 1866–1935)
In the process of fertility decline, the role and participation of men have hardly been considered in the demographic literature. It has grown only as fertility was dropping dramatically in most Western countries, but very little has been done to analyze such an issue in historical populations. Based on individual-level data, the present paper aims at investigating, by means of hazard models, the role of males in the reproductive pattern of the p…
Maternal Mortality in 19th- and Early 20th-century Italy
Although dramatically reduced in Western and developed countries, maternal mortality is still today one of the most relevant social and health scourges in developing countries. This is the reason why high levels of maternal mortality are always interpreted as a sign of low living standards, ignorance, poverty and woman discrimination. Maternal mortality represents, therefore, a very peculiar characteristic of demographic systems of ancien regime.…
Deaths and survivors in war
The aim of this paper is to study the selection effects of mortality among soldiers in WWI
Kin and birth order effects on male child mortality
Human child survival depends on adult investment, typically from parents. However, in spite of recent research advances on kin influence and birth order effects on human infant and child mortality, studies that directly examine the interaction of kin context and birth order on sibling differences in child mortality are still rare. Our study supplements this literature with new findings from large-scale individual-level panel data for three East A…
Reproductive Change in Transitional Italy
Le rôle des variables intermédiaires de fécondité reste une question largement inexplorée au niveau micro en Italie. Cet article étudie les effets de l’éducation féminine et des critères socioéconomiques sur le déclin de la fécondité dans dix populations italiennes, par le biais d’une analyse des cohortes de mariages de la fin du xix e siècle à 1951. Les données sont tirées de l’Enquête sur la Fécondité qui a été menée au sein du recensement ital…
Living alone in nineteenth-century rural Italy
Few studies have dealt with the issue of people living alone in pretransitional rural populations. Alone by choice or circumstances, usually poor and sometimes stigmatised, solitaries often had a hard life. This article analyses the characteristics and life-histories of people living alone in two rural villages in nineteenth-century Italy with the aim of understanding whether and how solitaries managed to find a way out from solitude. The results…
La préférence pour les fils dans une société de métayers
Les préférences quant au sexe des enfants et leur lien avec la fécondité ont souvent, voire exclusivement, été étudiées dans des populations transitionnelles ou post-transitionnelles. L'essentiel des études sur le sujet concernent des pays asiatiques, où le patriarcat et la discrimination liée au sexe étaient deux caractéristiques culturelles favorisant une préférence pour les fils. À l'inverse, l'attention s'est très peu focalisée sur les popula…
The relationship between family characteristics and height in Sardinia at the turn of the twentieth century
This paper is intended as a contribution to the debate on the determinants of physical stature in the past and it specifically investigates whether, in Sardinia, height − considered as a proxy of the share of household resources allocated to a child’s growth − was influenced by the number of brothers and sisters amongst whom parents had to distribute available resources. This study is limited to the male population, because military records repre…
A micro-analytical Investigation of Reproductive Behaviour in Italy during the Fascist Period
Entre la fin des années 1920 et le début des années 1930, comme dans beaucoup d’autres pays européens, le régime fasciste italien prit des mesures pour lutter efficacement contre la baisse de la fécondité. Utilisant les données individuelles du recensement de 1961 dans quatre communautés présentant des profils sociaux et économiques variés, cette analyse se fixe pour objectif de vérifier si la campagne de propagande du régime et les mesures légis…
Social and Economic Determinants of Reproductive Behavior Before the Fertility Decline. The Case of Six Italian Communities During the Nineteenth Century
Living Arrangements and the Elderly
The elevated levels of protection, assistance, and care enjoyed by the elderly living in complex households has long been a key assumption of many family system theories. However, although this hypothesis has been demonstrated for contemporary contexts, quantitative evidence for past populations is particularly scarce, if not nonexistent. This article investigates the relationship between old-age mortality and living arrangements in a mid–ninetee…
Patterns of reproductive behavior in transitional Italy
Few studies have investigated the role of the intermediate variables of fertility at the micro-level in Italy, and, in particular, little is known about the influence of socioeconomic factors. This is the reason that the mechanisms through which women arri
Families in motion
The reconstruction of household and individual life histories has made it possible to determine the intensity and role of migratory dynamics in the demographic system of Casalguidi, a rural community in 19th century Italy. This article deals with the household component of those migratory processes, trying to clarify the background in which such difficult decisions were made. In particular, the importance of the economy and kin networks is assess…
The relationship between family characteristics and height in Sardinia at the turn of the twentieth century
This paper is intended as a contribution to the debate on the determinants of physical stature in the past and it specifically investigates whether, in Sardinia, height − considered as a proxy of the share of household resources allocated to a child’s growth − was influenced by the number of brothers and sisters amongst whom parents had to distribute available resources. This study is limited to the male population, because military records repre…
Socioeconomic conditions, health and mortality from birth to adulthood, Alghero 1866–1925
The Use of Parish Marriage Registers in Biodemographic Studies
No previous studies have critically evaluated the representativeness or reliability of parish marriage registers for biodemographic studies of historical Italian populations. Because of the widespread Italian custom of spouses settling down in the groom's parish after getting married in the bride's, such registers do not contain any information on wife-exogamous unions. This fact affects not only the number of marriages considered, but also any e…
Living Arrangements and the Elderly
The elevated levels of protection, assistance, and care enjoyed by the elderly living in complex households has long been a key assumption of many family system theories. However, although this hypothesis has been demonstrated for contemporary contexts, quantitative evidence for past populations is particularly scarce, if not nonexistent. This article investigates the relationship between old-age mortality and living arrangements in a mid–ninetee…
Maternal Mortality in 19th- and Early 20th-century Italy
Although dramatically reduced in Western and developed countries, maternal mortality is still today one of the most relevant social and health scourges in developing countries. This is the reason why high levels of maternal mortality are always interpreted as a sign of low living standards, ignorance, poverty and woman discrimination. Maternal mortality represents, therefore, a very peculiar characteristic of demographic systems of ancien regime.…
Patterns of reproductive behavior in transitional Italy
Few studies have investigated the role of the intermediate variables of fertility at the micro-level in Italy, and, in particular, little is known about the influence of socioeconomic factors. This is the reason that the mechanisms through which women arri
Demographic responses to short-term stress in a 19th century Tuscan population
This paper deals with the relationship between household emigration and short-term crisis in a rural community of mid-19th century Tuscany. Based on a detailed reconstruction of individual and household life-histories, the paper shows the close relatio
Changes in marriage seasonality among some european rural populations
The preservation or the change of the population structure is often strictly related to the acquisition or loss of behavioural models: the choice of the wedding period is among them. Analysing the period in which people marry, it is possible to point out modifications in the economy, in the work calendar and it also can be helpful to determine the importance of religious traditions. In this work, the authors study the marriage seasonality of nine…
Family Composition and Remarriage in Pre-Transitional Italy
The plague of 1630 in the territory of Parma
This study analyses the diffusion and intensity of the plague in the territory of the Duchy of Parma in the 17th century. Thanks to a large availability of data, the analysis has been carried out both at the macro and micro level. The first was used to investigate the outbreak of the epidemic, its spread in the territory and the final recovery of the population in terms either of mortality or birth rate. The second level was based on the particul…
Social and Economic Determinants of Reproductive Behavior Before the Fertility Decline. The Case of Six Italian Communities During the Nineteenth Century
The Role of Remarriage in a Microevolutionary Process
In this study, we investigate the extent to which social norms and cultural constraints might affect the genetic contribution of remarriage to future generations in a mid-19th century Italian population. By reconstructing the life histories of the inhabitants of Casalguidi, 1,028 marriages were recorded and analyzed. Frequency and reproductive pattern of remarriages were found to play a quantitatively important role in the process of population r…
La préférence pour les fils dans une société de métayers
Les préférences quant au sexe des enfants et leur lien avec la fécondité ont souvent, voire exclusivement, été étudiées dans des populations transitionnelles ou post-transitionnelles. L'essentiel des études sur le sujet concernent des pays asiatiques, où le patriarcat et la discrimination liée au sexe étaient deux caractéristiques culturelles favorisant une préférence pour les fils. À l'inverse, l'attention s'est très peu focalisée sur les popula…
Spouse selection by health status and physical traits. Sardinia, 1856–1925
Military medical information and data from civil registers of death and marriage have been used to study the role of physical characteristics and health conditions in explaining access to marriage for the male population of Alghero, a small city located in Sardinia Island (Italy), at the turn of 19th century. Literature data about contemporary populations have already demonstrated the influence of somatic traits in the mate choice. The results pr…
Health and socio-demographic conditions as determinants of marriage and social mobility
This paper makes use of data collected from military registers and marriage certificates for the population of Alghero, in Sardinia, for the period 1866-1925, with the aim of investigating the role played by physical characteristics and health in the p
Deaths and survivors in war
The aim of this paper is to study the selection effects of mortality among soldiers in WWI
Mortality Patterns of Cardinals (Sixteenth ? Twentieth Centuries)
Cet article étudie les caractéristiques et la mortalité des cardinaux de l’Église catholique du xvie au xxe siècle. Les cardinaux remplissent un rôle essentiel dans l’Église : ils forment le Sacré collège, élisent le pape et l’assistent. Grâce à une base de données remarquable par la précision et la continuité des informations biographiques recueillies depuis le Ve siècle, il est possible d’en analyser certaines spécificités. Durant la période ét…
Birth Seasonality in Present-Day Italy, 1993-2005
Remarriage in a pre-transitional Italian community
The article explores the roles of household compositional factors and socio-economic status on widowhood and remarriage. By using micro-level data from a nineteenth-century Italian community for the period 1819–1859, we found evidence of the very predominant role of household structure in the decision to remarry for both widows and widowers. In particular, the interplay between the presence of a supportive family network and the presence of cores…
Variations in late-age mortality by household structure and marital status in Parma, Italy
The objective of this study was to investigate the relationship between household structure and mortality at older ages in Parma, Italy. The household is an important setting for older people's social roles and social relations and its composition has a strong association with their health. The study examines 57,830 people aged 65 or more years drawn from the population registers of Parma (Italy). Record linkage from 1989 to 2000 was carried out …
Land Inequality and Demographic Outcomes
Landed vs landless: a poor interpretative framework of demographic patterns • Land access is associated with specific demographic mechanisms • Control over marriage and selective migration as regulators of household size • Higher vulnerability and sensitiveness of day laborers to short-term stress In pre-industrial rural Italy, the disparities among smallholders, sharecroppers, and day laborers were starkly defined by their unequal access to land…
The Spanish flu and the health system
The gravity of the Spanish flu has been often associated with inadequate health systems. However, few studies have used health data effectively in their analysis of epidemics
Between Constraints and Coercion
La mortalité des cardinaux (XVIe-XXe siècles)
Cet article étudie les caractéristiques et la mortalité des cardinaux de l'Église catholique du XVI e au XX e siècle. Les cardinaux remplissent un rôle essentiel dans l'église : ils forment le Sacré collège, élisent le pape et l'assistent. Grâce à une base de données remarquable par la précision et la continuité des informations biographiques recueillies depuis le V e siècle, il est possible d'en analyser certaines spécificités. Durant la période…
Les changements démographiques dans une ville d'Italie du Nord
Lucchetti Enzo, De Iasio Sergio, Manfredini Matteo. Les changements démographiques dans une ville d'Italie du Nord : Parme. Exemple d'utilisation du registre de population. In: Bulletins et Mémoires de la Société d'anthropologie de Paris, Nouvelle Série. Tome 6 fascicule 3-4, 1994. pp. 181-197
Changes in marriage seasonality among some european rural populations
The preservation or the change of the population structure is often strictly related to the acquisition or loss of behavioural models: the choice of the wedding period is among them. Analysing the period in which people marry, it is possible to point out modifications in the economy, in the work calendar and it also can be helpful to determine the importance of religious traditions. In this work, the authors study the marriage seasonality of nine…
La peste de 1630 dans la ville et dans le territoire de Parme (Italie)
Lucchetti Enzo, Manfredini Matteo, De Iasio Sergio. La peste de 1630 dans la ville et dans le territoire de Parme (Italie). In: Bulletins et Mémoires de la Société d'anthropologie de Paris, Nouvelle Série. Tome 10 fascicule 3-4, 1998. pp. 411-424
The plague of 1630 in the territory of Parma
This study analyses the diffusion and intensity of the plague in the territory of the Duchy of Parma in the 17th century. Thanks to a large availability of data, the analysis has been carried out both at the macro and micro level. The first was used to investigate the outbreak of the epidemic, its spread in the territory and the final recovery of the population in terms either of mortality or birth rate. The second level was based on the particul…
Families in motion
The reconstruction of household and individual life histories has made it possible to determine the intensity and role of migratory dynamics in the demographic system of Casalguidi, a rural community in 19th century Italy. This article deals with the household component of those migratory processes, trying to clarify the background in which such difficult decisions were made. In particular, the importance of the economy and kin networks is assess…
The Use of Parish Marriage Registers in Biodemographic Studies
No previous studies have critically evaluated the representativeness or reliability of parish marriage registers for biodemographic studies of historical Italian populations. Because of the widespread Italian custom of spouses settling down in the groom's parish after getting married in the bride's, such registers do not contain any information on wife-exogamous unions. This fact affects not only the number of marriages considered, but also any e…
The bourgeois-pichat's biometric method and the influence of climate
This paper examines to which extent seasonal and climatic conditions might affect the reliability of the Bourgeois-Pichat's method. Other scholars have already argued on this issue, but although climate has often been claimed to explain part of the differentials in mortality figures among Italian regions, to date its impact has not actually been recognized and quantitatively evaluated. To test such hypothesis data at the regional level from late …
Coresident and non-coresident kin in a nineteenth-century italian rural community
Fondé sur une reconstruction minutieuse des parcours de vie des individus et des familles d’un village italien du xixe siècle, ce travail étudie l’impact des réseaux de parenté locaux sur la mobilité des habitants, en distinguant particulièrement les deux groupes principaux agricoles, les journaliers et les métayers. Plus d’enracinement de long terme du côté des métayers, des mouvements de courte distance et une fragmentation des unités familiale…
Variations in late-age mortality by household structure and marital status in Parma, Italy
The objective of this study was to investigate the relationship between household structure and mortality at older ages in Parma, Italy. The household is an important setting for older people's social roles and social relations and its composition has a strong association with their health. The study examines 57,830 people aged 65 or more years drawn from the population registers of Parma (Italy). Record linkage from 1989 to 2000 was carried out …
The Role of Remarriage in a Microevolutionary Process
In this study, we investigate the extent to which social norms and cultural constraints might affect the genetic contribution of remarriage to future generations in a mid-19th century Italian population. By reconstructing the life histories of the inhabitants of Casalguidi, 1,028 marriages were recorded and analyzed. Frequency and reproductive pattern of remarriages were found to play a quantitatively important role in the process of population r…
The shock of widowhood”? Evidence from an Italian population (Parma, 1989–2000)
Remarriage in a pre-transitional Italian community
The article explores the roles of household compositional factors and socio-economic status on widowhood and remarriage. By using micro-level data from a nineteenth-century Italian community for the period 1819–1859, we found evidence of the very predominant role of household structure in the decision to remarry for both widows and widowers. In particular, the interplay between the presence of a supportive family network and the presence of cores…
Les enfants abandonnés à l'hôpital de Parme (Italie) dans la commune de Pellegrino Parmense
Grâce à une source étatique antérieure à l’Unité italienne, qui s’est révélée d’une précision remarquable et que nous avons complétée par une plongée dans les archives paroissiales locales, nous avons pu observer, au sein d’une zone de collines de l’actuelle province de Parme au milieu du xix e siècle, la présence massive d’individus – le plus souvent des enfants et des jeunes gens – définis par la source elle-même comme « Figli dell’Ospedale » (…
Socioeconomic Structure and Differential Fertility by Wealth in a Mid-Nineteenth Century Tuscan Community
Cet article porte sur la relation existant entre richesse et fécondité dans un village toscan à la démographie pré-transitionnelle, Casalguidi au milieu du xix e siècle. Cet enjeu est très important en démographie historique car les grands traits des populations caractérisées par une fécondité naturelle et l’absence de contrôle volontaire des naissances ne sont pas encore tous dévoilés. Grâce à des données à l’échelle micro, nous reconstruisons n…
Family Composition and Remarriage in Pre-Transitional Italy
Mechanisms and Microevolutionary Consequences of Social Homogamy in a 19th-Century Italian Community
Choosing a spouse has always been an event subjected to strong social control. Consideration of socioprofessional elements is therefore necessary for an in-depth understanding of the microevolutionary consequences of marriage. Thus in this paper I explore the extent and causes of reproduction isolation between different socioprofessional groups of a 19th-century Italian community, Casalguidi. Various features of mate choice pattern were investiga…
Birth Seasonality in Present-Day Italy, 1993-2005
Mortality Patterns of Cardinals (Sixteenth ? Twentieth Centuries)
Cet article étudie les caractéristiques et la mortalité des cardinaux de l’Église catholique du xvie au xxe siècle. Les cardinaux remplissent un rôle essentiel dans l’Église : ils forment le Sacré collège, élisent le pape et l’assistent. Grâce à une base de données remarquable par la précision et la continuité des informations biographiques recueillies depuis le Ve siècle, il est possible d’en analyser certaines spécificités. Durant la période ét…
Spouse selection by health status and physical traits. Sardinia, 1856–1925
Military medical information and data from civil registers of death and marriage have been used to study the role of physical characteristics and health conditions in explaining access to marriage for the male population of Alghero, a small city located in Sardinia Island (Italy), at the turn of 19th century. Literature data about contemporary populations have already demonstrated the influence of somatic traits in the mate choice. The results pr…
Health and socio-demographic conditions as determinants of marriage and social mobility
This paper makes use of data collected from military registers and marriage certificates for the population of Alghero, in Sardinia, for the period 1866-1925, with the aim of investigating the role played by physical characteristics and health in the p
Socioeconomic conditions, health and mortality from birth to adulthood, Alghero 1866–1925
Demographic responses to short-term stress in a 19th century Tuscan population
This paper deals with the relationship between household emigration and short-term crisis in a rural community of mid-19th century Tuscany. Based on a detailed reconstruction of individual and household life-histories, the paper shows the close relatio
La mortalité des cardinaux (XVIe-XXe siècles)
Cet article étudie les caractéristiques et la mortalité des cardinaux de l'Église catholique du XVI e au XX e siècle. Les cardinaux remplissent un rôle essentiel dans l'église : ils forment le Sacré collège, élisent le pape et l'assistent. Grâce à une base de données remarquable par la précision et la continuité des informations biographiques recueillies depuis le V e siècle, il est possible d'en analyser certaines spécificités. Durant la période…
Height, socioeconomic status and marriage in Italy around 1900
Between Constraints and Coercion
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