Two Medieval Occitan Toll Registers from Tarascon

Inbunden, Engelska, 2016

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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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2016-04-11
Mått164 x 235 x 24 mm
Vikt600 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieMedieval Academy Books
Antal sidor256
FörlagUniversity of Toronto Press
ISBN9781442629349

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Introduction1. Manuscripts2. Chronology3. Language4. Description of Manuscripts T and N5. The World around the Registers6. Historical Change in the Toll Registers7. This Edition8. Afterword: Toll Registers and Troubadours Occitan Texts and English TranslationsMS T: Tarascon, Archives Municipales AA9, ff. 3r-17TextTranslation MS N: Newberry Library (Chicago) / Northwestern University (Evanston) MS 1; Newberry Library, Vault Case MS 220TextTranslation MarginaliaTextual NotesGlossaryAppendicesIndex of English Names of CommoditiesConcordance of Items, as numbered by Bondurand, with folio and line in MS T 184

‘This is a very fine and orderly edition complete with all trappings… Glossary is a real gem… The glossary even provides indexes of the words named and we thus get a very fine tool to approach Occitan texts from the period – whether in prose or poetry.’- Karen Schousboe (Medieval Histories: News about the Middle Ages, 18 August 2016) ‘Magisterially edited and translated…. Two Medieval Occitan Toll Registers will reward not only scholars of Occitan, Provence and France, but will also benefit those interested in medieval Mediterranean culture and European trade networks.’- Sebastian Sobecki (Speculum vol 92:04:2017)