This article analyzes the geographical mobility towards the city of Valencia between 1416 and 1470, mainly based on the labour, marriage and slave markets, although the proportion of individuals who dictated their last wishes far from their hometowns has also been estimated. In particular, we have analyzed certain documentation preserved in the 37 ...
This paper considers the high degree of geographical mobility that characterizes a specific group of Italian traders. Those who stayed in Spain for a few years in order to run their trade operations generated large commercial and financial exchanges in the Crowns of Aragon and Castile, and afterwards either returned to their home country or went to...
Published in Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology
Background: There is currently great concern over the demands on psychiatric services in metropolitan areas in most developed countries, and this is exemplified in capital cities. These greater demands were not anticipated by those planning psychiatric services and the consequences have led to insufficient beds in many areas. We investigated the ge...
