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IMC 2018: Sessions

Session 1651: Land and Sea in Italy

Thursday 5 July 2018, 11.15-12.45

Moderator/Chair:Luciano Gallinari, Istituto di Storia dell'Europa Mediterranea (ISEM), Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Cagliari
Paper 1651-aCoping with the Crisis: The Sienese State and the Development of Transhumance in Late Middle Ages, Southern Tuscany, 1353-1419
(Language: English)
Davide Cristoferi, Vakgroep Geschiedenis, Universiteit Gent
Index terms: Administration, Economics - General, Economics - Rural, Social History
Abstract

Paper -a:
The paper analyses the role of a fiscal institution (the Dogana dei Paschi) of the city commune of Siena to manage the transhumance development in Late Medieval Southern Tuscany. In that area, after the Black Death and until the early 15th century, Siena carried on a state-building process making a legal plunder of the commons from the communities and lordships submitted. The commons were rented out to flocks of thousands of sheep from Apennines for winter grazing, providing increasing revenues to the communal balance. This way the Sienese urban elites coped with the crisis, but as consequence they hastened the decline of their territory.