Southern Italy in the Late Middle Ages

Demographic, Institutional and Economic Change in the Kingdom of Naples, C.1440-C.1530
Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-90-04-22406-3
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 94, 574 Seiten, Format (B × H): 168 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 1080 g

Reihe: The Medieval Mediterranean

The first full-length study of mainland southern Italy's domestic market in the late Middle Ages, this book discusses the interaction between population, the market, and the region's institutional framework, in the context of the impact of the late medieval 'crisis' on the European economy. Based on new or little-used documentary evidence, it adopts an interdisciplinary approach and combines economic history with elements of economic theory to reassess common knowledge on demographic and urbanization trends, the organization of the domestic market, the role of the state, and on actual patterns of agricultural production, industrial activity and commercial itineraries. The result is a fresh look at the late medieval economy of the kingdom of Naples, which, it seems now, is worth studying for its own merit.

Zielgruppe

All those interested in European economic history, late medieval and early Renaissance Italian history, the history of southern Italy and of Iberian expansion in the medieval Mediterranean, as well as institutional historians, urban historians, and historical demographers.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sakellariou, Eleni

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte Europäische Regional- & Stadtgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wirtschaftsgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

LIST OF TABLES. vii
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. ix
INTRODUCTION. 1

CHAPTER ONE A Historiographical Problem: The Kingdom’s Economy in the late Middle Ages. 9
CHAPTER TWO Natural and Human Endowments. 63
CHAPTER THREE The Organization of the Neapolitan Market. 127
CHAPTER FOUR Changes in the Pattern of Production and Trade: Agriculture. 231
CHAPTER FIVE Changes in the Pattern of Production and Trade: Textile Manufacture. 334

EPILOGUE Expanding State Jurisdiction. 418

APPENDIX A The Kingdom’s Population in Figures. 439
APPENDIX B Maritime Transport from the Correspondence of the Sommaria, 1461–1516. 448
APPENDIX C Grants of Toll Franchise to Individual Towns. 460
APPENDIX D Regional Fairs in Southern Italy, c. 1200–1550. 471
APPENDIX E Livestock Trade at the Land Customs of Abruzzo, 1446–1504. 489
APPENDIX F Note on Currency and Measurements. 492
APPENDIX G Maps. 494

BIBLIOGRAPHY. 507
INDEX. 548

Über Autor(innen)

Sakellariou, Eleni
Eleni Sakellariou, Ph.D. (1996) in History, University of Cambridge, is Assistant Professor of Medieval European History at the University of Crete. She has published in English, Italian and Greek, on late medieval southern Italian history and on the history of the eastern Mediterranean after the Crusades.