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The Routledge Handbook of Public Taxation in Medieval Europe
Beginning in the twelfth century, taxation increasingly became an essential component of medieval society in most parts of Europe. The state-building process and relations between princes and their subject cities or between citizens and their rulers were deeply shaped by fiscal practices. Although medieval taxation has produced many publications over the past decades there remains no synthesis of this important subject. This volume provides a comprehensive overview on a European scale and suggests new paths of inquiry. It examines the fiscal systems and practices of medieval Europe, including essential themes such as medieval fiscal theory and the power to tax; royal and urban taxation; and ...
Sex, Gender, and Illegitimacy in the Castilian Noble Family, 1400-1600
Sex, Gender, and Illegitimacy in the Castilian Noble Family, 1400-1600 looks at illegitimacy across the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries and analyzes its implications for gender and family structure in the Spanish nobility, a class whose actions, structure, and power had immense implications for the future of the country and empire. Grace E. Coolidge demonstrates that women and men were able to challenge traditional honor codes, repair damaged reputations, and manipulate ideals of marriage and sexuality to encompass extramarital sexuality and the nearly constant presence of illegitimate children. This flexibility and creativity in their sexual lives enabled members of the nobility to repair...
Portugal in a European Context
Although Portugal was one of the first European states with stable borders, the process of the making of a Portuguese fiscal state still remains to be studied in detail. This volume brings together studies on the development of the Portuguese fiscal state within a comparative perspective in relation to other kingdoms across Europe, such as Castile and Aragon, England, Tuscany, the Papal States, Holland and France, in order to bring Portugal into the broader and comparative international debate about the development of the fiscal state. As a very distinctive case, Portugal remains understudied and underrepresented in the broader literature on the development of fiscal states. There are relati...
Textiles of Medieval Iberia
An examination of the fabrics, garments and cloth of the Iberian Middle Ages, bringing out in particular the international context.
Weber's Scorecard
This book examines Max Weber's understanding of bureaucracy by applying his ideas to the development of officialdom from the ninth century to the present in six territories: England, Sweden, France, Germany, Spain, and Hungary. Edward Page takes a broad view of bureaucracy that includes not only officials in important central or national institutions but also those providing goods and services locally. The 'scorecard' is based on expected developments in four key areas of Weber's analysis: the functional differentiation of tasks within government, professionalism, formalism, and monocracy. After discussing the character of officialdom in the ninth, twelfth, fifteenth, eighteenth, and twenty-first centuries, the book reveals that Weber's scorecard has a mixed record, especially weak in its account of the development of monocracy and formalism. A final chapter discusses alternative conceptions of bureaucratic development and sets out an account based on understanding processes of routinization, institutional integration, and the instrumentalization of law.
Fisco y moneda. El uso del dinero en las economías de los reinos hispanos, siglos XIII-XVIII
El derecho a imponer tributos y el de acuñar o emitir moneda han sido tradicionalmente dos de las principales prerrogativas de la soberanía política que la autoridad siempre ha tratado de ejercer en régimen de monopolio, de acuerdo con los principios constitucionales que regulan en cada época la obligación a contribuir y la forma de acuñación o emisión de la moneda. Fisco y moneda aparecen estrechamente unidos a lo largo de la Historia y a menudo la política monetaria ha sido puesta al servicio de la política fiscal. Este libro recoge los resultados de recientes investigaciones sobre las relaciones entre la fiscalidad, la moneda y el uso del dinero en España desde el siglo XIII hasta mediados del XVIII, y en él se estudian cómo las dificultades financieras en épocas y circunstancias históricas diferentes influyeron en la política monetaria y las repercusiones que todo ello tuvo en diversos aspectos de la economía de los reinos hispánicos.
Connected Stories
Concepts such as influence, imitation, emulation, transmission or plagiarism are transcendental to cultural history and the subject of universal debate. They are not mere labels imposed by modern historiography on ancient texts, nor are they the result of a later interpretation of ways of transmitting and teaching, but are concepts defined and discussed internally, within all cultures, since time immemorial, which have yielded very diverse results. In the case of culture, or better Arab-Islamic cultures, we could analyze and discuss endlessly numerous terms that refer to concepts related to the multiple ways of perceiving the Other, receiving his knowledge and producing new knowledge. The pu...
Premodern ruling sexualities
This volume explores a range of premodern rulers and their depictions in historiography, literature, art and material culture to gain a broader understanding of their sexualities. It considers the methodologies and motivations of premodern writers and rulers when fashioning royal and elite sexualities and offers new analyses of an array of texts and artwork from across Europe and the wider Mediterranean.
El sistema financiero a finales de la Edad Media
Durante las últimas décadas, la historiografía ha mostrado cómo el crédito, en sus diferentes formas, impregnaba el conjunto de la sociedad en el Occidente bajomedieval. Ahora bien, todavía no se conoce suficientemente bien cómo se articularon ni cuál fue el nivel de integración de todas estas diversas formas de crédito. Dicho en otras palabras, resulta difícil establecer cuáles fueron los primeros pasos en la construcción de sistemas complejos y diversos, que abarcaron tanto el ámbito público como el privado, y que conectaron y dieron servicio a un amplio espectro social y territorial mediante variados instrumentos y métodos crediticios. Para contribuir a conocer un poco mejor este proceso, así como las características precisas y el alcance del sistema financiero que surge al final de la época medieval, se plantea la presente obra, que tiene como objetivo fundamental el estudio concreto de algunos de sus principales componentes.
