Two Medieval Occitan Toll Registers from Tarascon (Hardcover)

Two Medieval Toll Registers from Tarascon presents an edition, translation, and discussion of two vernacular toll registers from fourteenth and fifteenth-century Provence. These two registers are a valuable new source for the economic, linguistic, and transportation history of medieval France, offering a window onto the commercial life of Tarascon, a fortified town on the east bank of the Rhone between Avignon and Arles. William D. Paden discusses the developing fiscal policy of the counts of Provence, for whom the tolls were collected, and the practice and vocabulary of medieval toll-keeping. An afterword considers the toll registers in relation to the poetry of troubadours, arguing that the realism of the registers and the idealism of troubadour poetry overlapped in the world of medieval Tarascon.

General

Imprint:	University of Toronto Press
Country of origin:	Canada
Series:	Medieval Academy Books, 115
Release date:	April 2016
First published:	2016
Authors:	William D. Paden
Dimensions:	235 x 164 x 24mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	256
ISBN-13:	978-1-4426-2934-9
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > World history > 500 to 1500 Books > Humanities > History > European history > General Books > History > European history > General Books > History > World history > 500 to 1500 Promotions
LSN:	1-4426-2934-7
Barcode:	9781442629349

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