The value of goods and value of people. Assessing urban fiscal policies in late medieval Italy

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• Marta Gravela (University of Turin)
• Wednesday 24 May 2017, 17:00-18:00
• Walters Room, Selwyn College.

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The financial needs of late medieval Italian cities prompted their governments to impose, alongside indirect charges, direct taxes upon property. Proportional division of tax burdens thus required the registration and evaluation of the citizens’ possessions in appropriate books called ‘estimi’. To what extent did this estimation match actual wealth? By comparing various fiscal systems, I will argue that the evaluation of goods was the result of a complex assessment of the social value of citizens rather than a merely economic appraisal of property.

This talk is part of the Medieval Economic and Social History Seminars series.

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