Rosa Congost
Biographic Data
| ID | 516425 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rosa Congost |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rosa |
| FAMILY NAME | Congost |
| SIGNATURE | CONGOST R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universitat de Girona |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1389-0722 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Buildings, Lands, and Rents
In Ancien Régime Spain, ecclesiastical wealth consisted of not only land, but also the rental income raised from tenancies of which the Church was proprietor. Therefore, the suppression of monasteries and convents in Spain cannot be studied only in terms of the transfer of their principal estates. The incoming Liberal State appropriated the Church's rents for its own use, although many had fallen into abeyance before the suppressions began. To as…
More industrious and less austere than expected
This article studies the changes in ownership of real estate, livestock and objects belonging to agricultural workers in the region of Girona, north-eastern Catalonia, through the analysis of a sample of nearly one thousand postmortem inventories dated between 1725 and 1807. It shows that a sizable number of agricultural workers gained greater access to property rights in land and other means of production, as well as undeniable improvements in t…
Seeing credit and property rights from below
The Catalan case in south-western Europe offers us the opportunity to take a detailed look at the impact a lowering of the interest rate may have had on the poor of a specific area. It is vital to examine how property rights operated in specific contexts, given the close relationship between land and credit markets. Our working hypothesis is that, in some instances where property rights were redefined, as happened in eighteenth-century Catalonia,…
Una nueva historia social del mundo rural
Reflexiones sobre las relaciones entre los derechos de propiedad y los distintos grupos sociales y el modo de entrever y estudiar estas relaciones en perspectiva histórica
El proceso de difusión de la patata en Cataluña. Una revisión de las tesis elitistas o institucionalistas
En Cataluña, como en muchas regiones europeas, se halla muy arraigada la idea de que un producto alimentario nuevo, para tener éxito y universalizarse, requiere de la intervención de una institución o de una élite que lo propague entre el conjunto de la población dedicada a la agricultura. A pesar de las escasas noticias empíricas disponibles, la historiografía catalana ha aplicado esta tesis a la difusión de la patata a fines del siglo XVIII y p…
Qué liberaron las medidas liberales? La circulación de la tierra en la España del siglo XIX
The idea of “liberating or freeing up” land can be found in numerous studies of Spain’s economic evolution in the second half of the nineteenth century. Many of the measures implemented by the liberals were related to land, some of which have been considered key by Spanish historians. However, recent empirical studies have shown very dynamic land markets even during the Ancien Régime, raising the question of whether the changes should be attribut…
Beyond Life Cycle and Inheritance Strategies
In this article we propose to study social change that took place in the eighteenth century, a period of demographic growth in which increasing difficulties of access to land could have led to greater downward mobility and proletarization. However, our hypothesis is that this was also a period of middle class emergence in some rural regions. In the studied case (the Girona region in north-eastern Catalonia), after significant growth of the number…
Change in society, continuity in marriage
This article studies social dynamics in the Catalan region of Girona during the second half of the eighteenth and the first half of the nineteenth centuries, using marriage contracts signed before a notary. The analysis of this source reveals the existence of important social and economic changes, especially among the lowest groups of rural society. Among these transformations, the increase in the real value of dowries – especially in the case of…
Dispensation from Banns. A Data Source for Historical Demography and Social History
In certain regions of Spain, it was customary among the Catholic population to request a dispensation from banns. A study of this practice since the seventeenth century in Catalonia sheds new light on marriages in the region. This short paper focuses on the archives of the diocese of Girona, with a study of the content, characteristics and continuity of this data source and an assessment of its representativeness. It also examines the motives beh…
Les dispenses de bans. Une source pour la démographie historique et l'histoire sociale
Dans certaines régions d'Espagne, la coutume consistant à solliciter une dispense de proclamations de mariage était très répandue parmi la population catholique. Son étude depuis le xvii e siècle en Catalogne permet d'aborder d'une autre façon les mariages. Cette note de recherche porte sur des séries documentaires du diocèse de Gérone et permet d'analyser le contenu, les caractéristiques et la continuité de cette source, d'évaluer son degré de r…
Contexts Of Property In Europe The Social Embeddedness Of Property Rights In Land In Historical Perspective
Property Rights and Historical Analysis
Journal Article Property Rights and Historical Analysis: What Rights? What History? Get access Rosa Congost Rosa Congost University of Girona Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 181, Issue 1, November 2003, Pages 73–106, https://doi.org/10.1093/past/181.1.73 Published: 01 November 2003
Pratiques judiciaires, droits de propriété et attitudes de classe
Judiciary practices, property rights and class attitudes. - The 18th century Catalonian example This article dwells on the origins of the modern concept of property. This analysis of 18th century judicial practices in matters of property rights in two neighboring rural areas in Catalonia (Em- pordà and Roussillon) highlights the abuses committed by a minority of wealthy owners against the rest of the population. This study refers to research by E…
Property Rights and Historical Analysis
Journal Article Property Rights and Historical Analysis: What Rights? What History? Get access Rosa Congost Rosa Congost University of Girona Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 181, Issue 1, November 2003, Pages 73–106, https://doi.org/10.1093/past/181.1.73 Published: 01 November 2003
Change in society, continuity in marriage
This article studies social dynamics in the Catalan region of Girona during the second half of the eighteenth and the first half of the nineteenth centuries, using marriage contracts signed before a notary. The analysis of this source reveals the existence of important social and economic changes, especially among the lowest groups of rural society. Among these transformations, the increase in the real value of dowries – especially in the case of…
Seeing credit and property rights from below
The Catalan case in south-western Europe offers us the opportunity to take a detailed look at the impact a lowering of the interest rate may have had on the poor of a specific area. It is vital to examine how property rights operated in specific contexts, given the close relationship between land and credit markets. Our working hypothesis is that, in some instances where property rights were redefined, as happened in eighteenth-century Catalonia,…
More industrious and less austere than expected
This article studies the changes in ownership of real estate, livestock and objects belonging to agricultural workers in the region of Girona, north-eastern Catalonia, through the analysis of a sample of nearly one thousand postmortem inventories dated between 1725 and 1807. It shows that a sizable number of agricultural workers gained greater access to property rights in land and other means of production, as well as undeniable improvements in t…
Qué liberaron las medidas liberales? La circulación de la tierra en la España del siglo XIX
The idea of “liberating or freeing up” land can be found in numerous studies of Spain’s economic evolution in the second half of the nineteenth century. Many of the measures implemented by the liberals were related to land, some of which have been considered key by Spanish historians. However, recent empirical studies have shown very dynamic land markets even during the Ancien Régime, raising the question of whether the changes should be attribut…
Beyond Life Cycle and Inheritance Strategies
In this article we propose to study social change that took place in the eighteenth century, a period of demographic growth in which increasing difficulties of access to land could have led to greater downward mobility and proletarization. However, our hypothesis is that this was also a period of middle class emergence in some rural regions. In the studied case (the Girona region in north-eastern Catalonia), after significant growth of the number…
Les dispenses de bans. Une source pour la démographie historique et l'histoire sociale
Dans certaines régions d'Espagne, la coutume consistant à solliciter une dispense de proclamations de mariage était très répandue parmi la population catholique. Son étude depuis le xvii e siècle en Catalogne permet d'aborder d'une autre façon les mariages. Cette note de recherche porte sur des séries documentaires du diocèse de Gérone et permet d'analyser le contenu, les caractéristiques et la continuité de cette source, d'évaluer son degré de r…
Pratiques judiciaires, droits de propriété et attitudes de classe
Judiciary practices, property rights and class attitudes. - The 18th century Catalonian example This article dwells on the origins of the modern concept of property. This analysis of 18th century judicial practices in matters of property rights in two neighboring rural areas in Catalonia (Em- pordà and Roussillon) highlights the abuses committed by a minority of wealthy owners against the rest of the population. This study refers to research by E…
Pratiques judiciaires, droits de propriété et attitudes de classe
Judiciary practices, property rights and class attitudes. - The 18th century Catalonian example This article dwells on the origins of the modern concept of property. This analysis of 18th century judicial practices in matters of property rights in two neighboring rural areas in Catalonia (Em- pordà and Roussillon) highlights the abuses committed by a minority of wealthy owners against the rest of the population. This study refers to research by E…
Property Rights and Historical Analysis
Journal Article Property Rights and Historical Analysis: What Rights? What History? Get access Rosa Congost Rosa Congost University of Girona Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 181, Issue 1, November 2003, Pages 73–106, https://doi.org/10.1093/past/181.1.73 Published: 01 November 2003
Contexts Of Property In Europe The Social Embeddedness Of Property Rights In Land In Historical Perspective
Dispensation from Banns. A Data Source for Historical Demography and Social History
In certain regions of Spain, it was customary among the Catholic population to request a dispensation from banns. A study of this practice since the seventeenth century in Catalonia sheds new light on marriages in the region. This short paper focuses on the archives of the diocese of Girona, with a study of the content, characteristics and continuity of this data source and an assessment of its representativeness. It also examines the motives beh…
Les dispenses de bans. Une source pour la démographie historique et l'histoire sociale
Dans certaines régions d'Espagne, la coutume consistant à solliciter une dispense de proclamations de mariage était très répandue parmi la population catholique. Son étude depuis le xvii e siècle en Catalogne permet d'aborder d'une autre façon les mariages. Cette note de recherche porte sur des séries documentaires du diocèse de Gérone et permet d'analyser le contenu, les caractéristiques et la continuité de cette source, d'évaluer son degré de r…
Change in society, continuity in marriage
This article studies social dynamics in the Catalan region of Girona during the second half of the eighteenth and the first half of the nineteenth centuries, using marriage contracts signed before a notary. The analysis of this source reveals the existence of important social and economic changes, especially among the lowest groups of rural society. Among these transformations, the increase in the real value of dowries – especially in the case of…
Beyond Life Cycle and Inheritance Strategies
In this article we propose to study social change that took place in the eighteenth century, a period of demographic growth in which increasing difficulties of access to land could have led to greater downward mobility and proletarization. However, our hypothesis is that this was also a period of middle class emergence in some rural regions. In the studied case (the Girona region in north-eastern Catalonia), after significant growth of the number…
El proceso de difusión de la patata en Cataluña. Una revisión de las tesis elitistas o institucionalistas
En Cataluña, como en muchas regiones europeas, se halla muy arraigada la idea de que un producto alimentario nuevo, para tener éxito y universalizarse, requiere de la intervención de una institución o de una élite que lo propague entre el conjunto de la población dedicada a la agricultura. A pesar de las escasas noticias empíricas disponibles, la historiografía catalana ha aplicado esta tesis a la difusión de la patata a fines del siglo XVIII y p…
Qué liberaron las medidas liberales? La circulación de la tierra en la España del siglo XIX
The idea of “liberating or freeing up” land can be found in numerous studies of Spain’s economic evolution in the second half of the nineteenth century. Many of the measures implemented by the liberals were related to land, some of which have been considered key by Spanish historians. However, recent empirical studies have shown very dynamic land markets even during the Ancien Régime, raising the question of whether the changes should be attribut…
Una nueva historia social del mundo rural
Reflexiones sobre las relaciones entre los derechos de propiedad y los distintos grupos sociales y el modo de entrever y estudiar estas relaciones en perspectiva histórica
More industrious and less austere than expected
This article studies the changes in ownership of real estate, livestock and objects belonging to agricultural workers in the region of Girona, north-eastern Catalonia, through the analysis of a sample of nearly one thousand postmortem inventories dated between 1725 and 1807. It shows that a sizable number of agricultural workers gained greater access to property rights in land and other means of production, as well as undeniable improvements in t…
Seeing credit and property rights from below
The Catalan case in south-western Europe offers us the opportunity to take a detailed look at the impact a lowering of the interest rate may have had on the poor of a specific area. It is vital to examine how property rights operated in specific contexts, given the close relationship between land and credit markets. Our working hypothesis is that, in some instances where property rights were redefined, as happened in eighteenth-century Catalonia,…
Buildings, Lands, and Rents
In Ancien Régime Spain, ecclesiastical wealth consisted of not only land, but also the rental income raised from tenancies of which the Church was proprietor. Therefore, the suppression of monasteries and convents in Spain cannot be studied only in terms of the transfer of their principal estates. The incoming Liberal State appropriated the Church's rents for its own use, although many had fallen into abeyance before the suppressions began. To as…
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