This article focuses on the population analysis of the Parish of Orah near Vrgorac in the latter half of the eighteenth century, undertaken within the broader historical-demographic research of the ...Vrgorac Krajina, an agrarian community in which the military defence of the Venetian Republic was organised on the frontier with the Ottoman Empire. The data from the baptismal parish register have been computer processed and analysed, emphasis being placed on certain vital demographic indicators. Diachronic population trend of the micro-community under study is used as a frame within which specific demographic processes are observed, while the dynamics of the demographic patterns are reconstructed through the analysis of the number of baptisms by lineage, settlement and gender, by monthly and annual distribution of baptisms and conceptions, anthroponymic structure, establishment of social networks and the general issue of the openness of this rural micro-community. The article also highlights the birth of twins and children born out of wedlock. Special attention is paid to the seasonality of conception, with focus on the social factor related to the life indoors during cold seasons with regard to unfavourable intimacy conditions. A historical comparison of these results with those obtained by similar analysis of other areas, notably of the Dinaric Alps, suggests a striking similarity or even full correspondence with the relevant trends and patterns.
En este artículo se estudian los nombres de pila dobles (por ejemplo, Ana María o Juan Francisco) extraídos de los libros de bautismo de Sevilla anteriores a 1600, investigación esbozada hace años ...por Menéndez Pidal y similar a la que han llevado a cabo, entre otros, García Gallarín y Castro en otras zonas de España. Del análisis efectuado a 1073 partidas bautismales se deduce tanto la influencia que ejerció la Iglesia católica en relación con la elección de estos nombres, como la inclinación que las clases altas de la sociedad tenían por los nombres dobles.
Parish registers provide organized, dated and located population data and as such, are routinely among the most frequently consulted documents within the holdings of county record offices and ...archives. Throughout history, extreme weather has had significant impacts on the church, its congregation, and local landscape. It is for these reasons that extreme weather events have been deemed worthy of official note by authors of many registers. Although isolated entries have been used as supporting evidence for the occurrence of a number of historic extreme weather events, the information that parish registers contain relating to weather history has not been studied in its own right. Parish register narratives add new events to existing chronologies of extreme weather events and contribute to our understanding of their impacts at the local level. As public and well used documents they also function to keep the memory of particular events alive. The examples in this paper cover a wide range of weather types, places, and time periods, also enabling recording practice to be explored. Finally, as the number of digitized registers increases, we highlight the risks of weather narratives being obscured, and reflect on how the weather history contained within might be systematically captured.
Na temelju matične knjige krštenih župe Orah kod Vrgorca iz druge polovice 18. stoljeća stvorene su računalne serije podataka, izvršena njihova raščlamba i rasvijetljeni pojedini aspekti demografske ...zbilje ove agrarne mikrocjeline s rubnoga područja mletačkog vojnokrajiškog društva na samoj imperijalnoj granici. Kretanje broja stanovnika, mjesečna i godišnja distribucija rađanja po naseljima, spolu i rodovima, antroponimijska struktura, otvorenost odnosno zatvorenost ove ruralne mikrocjeline i gradnja socijalnih mreža promatrani kroz prizmu ženidbeno-kumovskog povezivanja, te napose sezonalitet začeća bili su u fokusu naših analitičko-interpretativnih i spoznajno-objasnidbenih postupaka. Spoznaje do kojih se došlo komparativno-historijskim pristupom uspoređene su s rezultatima istraživanja na raznim, zemljopisno bližim, posebno dinarskim, ali i onim nešto udaljenijim prostorima, čime se nastojalo utvrditi lokalne posebnosti i povezanosti s regionalnim kretanjima, ali i s onima iz znatno šireg prostornog obuhvata.
This paper presents the results of the study of the use of first names in the oldest parish register of the Cathedral of Seville (Iglesia del Sagrario). The baptismal certificates —of newborns and ...also non-Christian slaves— contained in the
are dated between January 1, 1515 and the March 3, 1524. The study focuses on the relative frequency of the names of newborns and slaves, but is also trying to find out the reasons for the choice of the names (geographical origin, social status).
Clinical Trial Registries: A Practical Guide for Sponsors and Researchers of Medicinal Products is a necessary addition to the library of all researchers who plan to publish their results in ...top-tier, peer-reviewed journals. ICMJE editors and other journal editors require registration of clinical trial information on publicly available Web sites before enrollment of study subjects and some countries and regions also require this information, as well as timely publication of study results. Not only does this book discuss the genesis of these requirements, it also provides practical information for researchers and sponsors on how to establish a workflow for a clinical registry project, how to file to a registry, and how to post results. More than 25 current Web addresses for registries are provided as well as a comprehensive annotated bibliography of papers on the topic of clinical trial registries. This book is a valuable source of information for all sponsors of medicinal products.
This overview deals with the development of population statistics in Germany and Prussia, where different streams and trends in the field of statistics can be observed until the end of the 18th ...century: (1) the so-called university statistics (Staatenkunde); (2) political arithmetic; (3) table statistics; (4) “German Kameralia;” and (5) Prussian financial science. The most important sources for historical demographic research are the parish registers. In Germany, they start in the early or high Middle Ages as baptismal lists. In Prussia in the 16th century, parish registers consisted of entries and items of baptisms (births), marriages, and funerals (deaths). Based upon these parish registers at the end of 17th century in the Brandenburg Electorate, population lists were set up as registers or tables of population movement, as “general registers of the born, the married, the deceased, and the communicants.” Physicians and such Prussian medical authorities as the Collegium medicum and the Collegium sanitatis collected data about the causes of death and the longevity of human life (people more than 90 years old). In the course of 120 years during the 17th and 18th centuries, about 350,000 immigrants came to Brandenburg-Prussia. The Prussians developed excellent migration and census statistics in the form of historical tables. From the founding of the Prussian Office of Statistics in 1805 until its reorganization in 1809–1810, historical tables were set up using population statistics.
The aim of this thesis is to visualize and explain how people’s economic and social relations were connected in the parish of Sundborn, in the south east of Dalarna, in the period 1820-1849. The ...study is based on records of claims and debts in inventories and parish registers, which enable reconstruction of the private local credit market. The study shows that the majority in the economic network lived in Sundborn, and that while few people had formal loans at the institutional credit market, many had loans by trust at the private local credit market. Also, while few people were lenders, almost everyone was a borrower. The most common credit relationship was between people who lived near one another, and people who lived near one another or were related received a higher average credit. The private local credit market consisted primarily of men. These results have been interpreted with the use of social network theory, it being shown that people depended on their social network to obtain the necessary credit. In creating an economic network graph, I show that households in the parish of Sundborn were interconnected by debt relations. By using this method, it is possible to identify significant persons and potential parish bankers. Through combining the network graph with a landscape map, I show connections between the settlement, the assets, economic relations, centrality and the long valley of Sundborn river. The study opens up possibilities for further development of the same method to visualize historic data and relate it to the landscape, with a view to generating new related questions and spatial analyses.
For the past few decades English historical demography has played a leading role in the academic research of the demographic phenomena and the underlying social structure of the past. Ever since the ...method of family reconstitution was applied to a reasonably large number of English parishes, the works of the pioneering demographic historians have been considered as a standard. But generalization of this standard needs a serious consideration when applied on the researches of other countries with different background. This article offers a critical review on the hitherto achievements of English historical demography, and discusses the inherent limitations. First, it investigates that what kind of primary sources have been used by the demographers working on middle to modern ages. It further discusses the nature of individual materials and argues the pros and cons of the researches. Then an analysis has been made on the research results that were produced from those materials, with an emphasis on family reconstitution methods and its application. Also, the authors has raised some issues that English historial demography has yet to fully address despite its great achievements.
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