UID:
edocfu_9958352997502883
Format:
1 online resource :
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3 maps
ISBN:
9781442629356
Series Statement:
Medieval Academy Books ; 115
Content:
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 Rhône 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.
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Illustrations --
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Acknowledgments --
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Abbreviations --
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Introduction --
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Occitan Texts and English Translations --
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Marginalia --
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Textual Notes --
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Glossary --
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English Names of Commodities in the Glossary --
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Appendices --
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Concordance of Items, as numbered by Bondurand, with folio and line in MS T --
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Works Cited
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In English.
Language:
English
DOI:
10.3138/9781442629356
URL:
https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442629356
