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Marginal and Obsolete? Rural Hospitals in Early Modern Europe: A Case Study of Catalonia (2024)
Journal Article
Marfany, J. (2024). Marginal and Obsolete? Rural Hospitals in Early Modern Europe: A Case Study of Catalonia. Social History of Medicine, https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkae018

Small local hospitals have been neglected by historians, and frequently assumed to have been marginal to their communities and largely obsolete by the eighteenth century. This paper questions such assumptions via a case study of Catalonia. It provide... Read More about Marginal and Obsolete? Rural Hospitals in Early Modern Europe: A Case Study of Catalonia.

Migration and the Household Economy of the Poor in Catalonia, c.1762-1803 (2022)
Book Chapter
Carbonell-Esteller, M., Marfany, J., & Pujadas-Mora, J. M. (2022). Migration and the Household Economy of the Poor in Catalonia, c.1762-1803. In B. Zucca Micheletto (Ed.), Gender and Migration in Historical Perspective (323-353). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-99554-6_10

Migration was a key element in the ‘economy of makeshifts’ of the poor. We examine such migration through a case study of late eighteenth-century Catalonia. We identify areas where seasonal migration formed an important part of the household economy... Read More about Migration and the Household Economy of the Poor in Catalonia, c.1762-1803.

Adapting to new markets: the income and expenditure of a Catalan peasant family, 1686 to 1812 (2018)
Journal Article
Marfany, J. (2018). Adapting to new markets: the income and expenditure of a Catalan peasant family, 1686 to 1812. Agricultural History Review, 66(1), 18-42

Greater market involvement by households, as producers and consumers, has been a key factor in explanations of economic change, particularly the notion of an industrious revolution. The degree, nature and implications of market involvement, however,... Read More about Adapting to new markets: the income and expenditure of a Catalan peasant family, 1686 to 1812.

Gender, life cycle, and family ‘strategies’ among the poor: the Barcelona workhouse, 1762–1805 (2017)
Journal Article
Carbonell-Esteller, M., & Marfany, J. (2017). Gender, life cycle, and family ‘strategies’ among the poor: the Barcelona workhouse, 1762–1805. The Economic History Review, 70(3), 810-836. https://doi.org/10.1111/ehr.12425

Poor relief has received less attention from historians of southern Europe compared with northern Europe. This article seeks to challenge the frequent assumption that the strength of family ties in southern Europe mitigated the need for welfare provi... Read More about Gender, life cycle, and family ‘strategies’ among the poor: the Barcelona workhouse, 1762–1805.