Aina Palarea Marimón
Doctor in History
Membership: Postdoctoral fellowship at the Spanish National Research Councili (CSIC)Contact details: aina.palarea@imf.csic.es /
Personal web: https://eui.academia.edu/AinaPalarea
Short CV:
I am a historian specialized in social and cultural history, with a particular focus on material culture. My interest in this field began with my master’s thesis, in which I examined post-mortem inventories to study rural consumption patterns in the late 14th and early 15th centuries. In 2023, I obtained my PhD from the European University Institute with a dissertation on the transformations of urban consumer practices in 15th-century Catalonia. In 2024-2025, I was a research associate at the University of Glasgow as part of the ERC/UKRI project Art & Inequality in the Shadow of the Black Death, where I analyzed material bequests recorded in three hundred last wills from Barcelona and Vic. In 2025, I began my second postdoctoral fellowship at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), where I plan to develop my dissertation into a book focused on the privatization of art and the transformation of domestic interiors, as well as their economic consequences.
To date, I have published in peer-reviewed international journals such as Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History and Espacio, Tiempo y Forma, with forthcoming articles in Anuario de Estudios Medievales and Economic History Research. I have also contributed to several edited volumes.
Selected bibliography:
– “The Second Half of the Fourteenth Century, a Golden Age for the Peasantry? Consumer Behavior of Peasants in Central and North-Eastern Catalonia (1348-1410).” Anuario de Estudios Medievales 55/2 (2026): 1-26. https://doi.org/10.3989/aem.2025.55.2.1475
– “Silk Consumption and Dressing Practices in late Medieval Catalonia. The cases of Barcelona and Vic (1400-1460).” Revista de Historia Económica – Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History (2024), 42, 355–385. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0212
– “A Methodological Puzzle: The Representativeness of after-death inventories without monetary valuations. The case of Vic (1400-1460).” Espacio, Tiempo y Forma. Serie III Historia Medieval 37 (2024): 881-912. https://doi.org/10.5944/etfiii.37.2024.39089
– “Clothing, Gender and Status in late Medieval Catalonia. The cases of Barcelona and Vic (1400-1460).” Investigaciones de Historia Económica – Economic History Research [Accepted]
Links:
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