Tuscan states: Florence and Siena

Tanzini, Lorenzo

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“…Town councils were venues of public speech. 128 The citizens of Canterbury who around 1430 composed a text of the corporate privileges, which they alone held because of their collective status, chose to prioritize the right of speaking. The document itemized 'the propretees and the benefetes that fremen of Canterbery hau more than other that be nogth free of the same Citee', the first of which was that 'fremen may come to counseill of the Cite and there speke and to be herd wher other shul voyde and be put away'.…”

Section: The Meaning Of 'Consensus' In Late Medieval Town Politicsmentioning

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Who decides? Urban councils and consensus in the late Middle Ages

Liddy

2021

Social History

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The prosaic records of town council meetings are an essential, if problematic, source for historians of late medieval European towns. They are a window on to the concerns, fears and ambitions of urban authorities, yet they have proved especially intractable to historians interested in the social history of urban politics. They seem to present a monotonously harmonious picture of civic unity, social solidarity and political unanimity. Urban historians have increasingly looked outside the town hall for evidence of the social divisions and political discord that truly characterized town life. They have uncovered an unstable world of 'contentious politics', in which revolt was only one possible means of dissent. This article argues that historians should return to the town hall and to the council chamber, in order to reassess the value of town council minutes. Placing the rich, and still relatively little-used, civic archive of the English city of Norwich within a wider European context, it focuses on the meaning and significance of the easily overlooked records of nonattendance at council meetings. It locates official anxieties about non-attendance not within a narrowly legal or institutional framework, but within a contemporary culture of urban citizenship, which was performative and disputatious. The article identifies a form of 'consensus politics' that involved, indeed promoted, conflict.

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Who decides? Urban councils and consensus in the late Middle Ages

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2021

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The Lion's Share

Alfani¹,

Tullio²

2019

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Centre and PeripheryThis chapter aims to give an overview of the developments of the Venetian fiscal system between the late Middle Ages and the early modern period. Such developments, although an integral part of the process of the gradual emergence all over Europe of the modern fiscal state, are nevertheless remarkably localized in their specifics. Particular attention will be paid to local taxation, which on account of its heterogeneous characteristics is often overlooked when attempting a synthesis, but is crucial to understanding the sources available for the study of the distribution of property and wealth. Indeed, the local property tax records (estimi) are the main historical sources used in the chapters that follow.

Tuscan states: Florence and Siena

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Who decides? Urban councils and consensus in the late Middle Ages

Who decides? Urban councils and consensus in the late Middle Ages

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