Fiscal Estates and Medieval Economic Growth: Some Considerations
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The article reflects upon the relation between fiscal estates and medieval economic growth on the basis of the essays from the monographic section Dinamiche economiche e fisco regio: stra- tegie gestionali e circuiti redistributivi. By integrating the evidence found in the above-men- tioned texts for Italy – specifically Tuscany – and Lotharingia with those available in litera- ture for the centuries 9th-12th, the article suggests fiscal estates as the main driver of the initial economic growth in c. 9th-10th. Conversely, fiscal estates seem becoming a seigneurial tool to hitch onto the surrounding demographic, agrarian and commercial growth already in place in centuries 11th-12th.
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