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Fiscal relations between states and cities in early modern Europe
is a major concern for economic and financial historians. This
collection of eleven essays is based on new research using
documentary evidence from local and national archives from across
Europe.
Fiscal relations between states and cities in early modern Europe
is a major concern for economic and financial historians. This
collection of eleven essays is based on new research using
documentary evidence from local and national archives from across
Europe.
This study of sixteenth-century Antwerp and its surroundings is an
attempt to combine commercial explanation models concerning the
impact of great towns on their surrounding countryside with an
approach in which institutional factors, and especially property
relations, play the major role. It focuses on four types of
influence of Antwerp on its surroundings: - the demographic impact
- the increasing urban demand for agrarian products -the impact of
the urban economy on non-agrarian types of labour in the
countryside and - the purchases of land and other investments made
by Antwerp citizens and their impact on the property relations in
the surrounding countryside Within the framework of these four
fields of interaction between town and countryside, three essential
questions have to be answered: First, how can we characterize the
urban influence in each of these fields? Can it be considered a
stimulus for the rural economy or rather an obstacle? Second, what
was the economic response of the rural economy to the urban impact?
Did it respond by specializing, according to the model presented by
J. de Vries, and others, or were there obstacles that obstructed
specialization? Third, what role did the medieval legacies play in
the interaction between the 'capitalist' metropolis and the
'feudal' countryside? Michael Limberger teaches at the Catholic
University Brussels (KUB) and at Ghent University. His research
covers late medieval and early modern economic and social history,
especially of the Low Countries.
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