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Italian Victualling Systems in the Early Modern Age, 16th to 18th Century (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
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Italian Victualling Systems in the Early Modern Age, 16th to 18th Century (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Series: Palgrave Studies in Economic History
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This book illustrates the complexity and variety of victualling
systems in early modern Italy. For a long time, the historiography
of urban provisioning systems in late medieval and early modern
times featured a conceptual opposition between victualling
administration and the market. In this book, on the contrary, the
term 'victualling system' (sistema annonario) is employed according
to its historical meaning, designating an organised set of public
and private channels, evolved typically in urban contexts, for the
procurement and distribution of the goods essential for the daily
life of common people. According to this definition, specifically,
a victualling system included also the market, as one of the
different channels for the procurement and distribution of goods.
What characterises the Italian case in the European context are
both the earliness of these institutions and the long-lasting
political and economic fragmentation of the peninsula: these
factors determined the great variety and complexity of the
solutions adopted. In order to show these features, the analysis
focuses on four central issues: the configuration of systems,
institutional pragmatism and variety, articulation of circuits, and
plurality of actors. The seven relevant case-studies included in
this book, all based on direct archival research, cover a wide
range of geographical contexts and institutional arrangements, from
the North to the South of the peninsula, and include both
large-sized cities (Milan and Rome), medium-sized cities (Bergamo,
Vicenza, and Ferrara), and entire regions (the March of Ancona, and
Sicily). This allows the reader to appreciate regional and local
differences in detail, making this book of interest for academics
and scholars in economic, social, and urban history.
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