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Estate management around Florence and Lucca 1000-1250 /

"This book describes the forms of estate management, and the way they changed, around Florence and Lucca during the central Middle Ages. It is based mainly on the notarial charters preserved in the ecclesiastical archives of both cities dating to the period 1000-1250, with a focus on the years...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Tabarrini, Lorenzo, 1990- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2023]
Series:Oxford historical monographs.
Subjects:
Land tenure > Italy > Florence (Province) > History > To 1500.
Land tenure > Italy > Lucca (Province) > History > To 1500.
HISTORY.
Medieval.
Historical Geography.
Land tenure
Italy > Florence (Province)
Italy > Lucca (Province)
Economics.
To 1500
Electronic books.
History
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Halftitle page
  • Series page
  • Title page
  • Copyright page
  • Table of Contents
  • Maps, Tables, and Graphs
  • Acknowledgements
  • Abbreviations
  • Manuscript and Archival Sources
  • Editions of Primary Sources
  • Units of Measurement
  • Money
  • Square and Capacity Measures
  • Dates
  • Note on Terminology and Translation
  • Introduction
  • Economic Growth and Agrarian Economy: A Short Overview of Europe, Italy, and Tuscany
  • The Historiography on Estate Management in Medieval Tuscany
  • War, Taxes, and the Popolo: The Political History of Lucca and Florence
  • 1. Land Management and Rural Society Before and After 1000
  • An Overview of the sistema curtense around Lucca and Florence (700-1150)
  • The Signorial Mutation around Lucca and Florence
  • Unfree Tenancy in the Lucchesia and the Fiorentino after 1100
  • Conclusion
  • 2. Florence and the Florentine Countryside: Case Studies (Eleventh-Thirteenth Centuries)
  • Geography, Historical Ecology, and Demography
  • Inflation in the Late Twelfth and Early Thirteenth Centuries
  • The Case Studies
  • Close to Florence: The Badia a Settimo
  • The Chianti Region: S. Michele di Passignano
  • The Infancy of Mezzadria in the Chianti Region through the Evidence of Passignano
  • The Chianti Region: Other Case Studies
  • Conclusion
  • 3. Lucca and the Lucchesia: Case Studies (Eleventh-Thirteenth Centuries)
  • Geography, Historical Ecology, and Demography
  • Inflation in the Late Twelfth and Early Thirteenth Centuries
  • The Case Studies
  • The Canons of S. Martino: Massa Macinaia and Massarosa
  • The Monastery of S. Ponziano (Tenth Century-1230s)
  • The Notarial Protocols of Ciabatto (1222-32)
  • Conclusion
  • Conclusion
  • The Economic Conjuncture of 1180-1230 in a Comparative Perspective
  • Responding to Change: Credit to Agriculturists, Ecology, and Estate Management
  • Bibliography
  • Index