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Two Medieval Occitan Toll Registers from Tarascon / William D. Paden.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Medieval Academy Books ; 115Publisher: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2016]Copyright date: 2016Description: 1 online resource (256 p.) : 3 mapsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781442629349
  • 9781442629356
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 944.9/1 23
LOC classification:
  • DC801.T18 P33 2016eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Occitan Texts and English Translations -- Marginalia -- Textual Notes -- Glossary -- English Names of Commodities in the Glossary -- Appendices -- Concordance of Items, as numbered by Bondurand, with folio and line in MS T -- Works Cited
Summary: 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.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Occitan Texts and English Translations -- Marginalia -- Textual Notes -- Glossary -- English Names of Commodities in the Glossary -- Appendices -- Concordance of Items, as numbered by Bondurand, with folio and line in MS T -- Works Cited

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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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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