The Protection of Fiscal Estates: practices of public safeguard and royal authority in the Lombard Kingdom of the 8th century
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King Liutprand repeatedly issued new laws in order to protect the fiscal estates, which were subtracted to the public utility by rich and powerful men, thanks to the collusion and the easy corruptibility of the actores, the officers who were in charge of their administration. The following Kings, however, gave up checking in person the fiscal estates and they preferred to adopt a different strategy, which consist in allocating in monasteries the quotas of public assets they wanted to ensure full control over. These monasteries indeed had to sustain many conflicts for the possession and use of fiscal estates, because laymen, clerics and communities that previously had enjoyed of them, did not accept the new system without fighting.
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