Year: 2023
Type: article
Abstract: In the last quarter of the nineteenth century, the clerics of the congregation of San Salvatore in Naples were preparing a petition, or maybe a legal defense, regarding their taxes.Someone from the congregation appears to have been delegated to research and to document their exemption from a tax called the collecta, or as historian Hiroshi Takayama termed it "the notorious collecta."Imposts identified with this fearsome appellation first appear under the This essay is dedicated to all the students who have explored "medieval Italy" with me in History 149b: Italy in the Age of Dante, especially Ethan Yee and Patrick Morgan.
Source: Speculum
DOI: 10.1086/725192
Author: Maureen C. Miller
Language: English
Subfield: Classics
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W4382653389