Taxes, Revenues, and War: San Sisto di Piacenza, Cremona and the Economic Value of the Fiscal Estates of Guastalla and Luzzara (9th-13th Centuries)
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https://doi.org/10.6093/1593-2214/9906Keywords:
Middle Ages, 9th-13th Centuries, Piacenza, San Sisto, Guastalla, Luzzara, Cremona, Economic History, Royal Domain, Legal DisputeAbstract
The article examines the documentation regarding the royal estates of Guastalla and Luzzara between the the ninth and the thirteenth centuries. Both of them were granted by Empress Angelberga to the monastery of San Sisto di Piacenza in 877. Towards the end of the twelfth century they were claimed in court by the commune of Cremona, which won the dispute in 1227. The article has two main aims: to show that the most profitable assets linked to Guastalla and Luzzara derived from their fiscal origin, and that the persistence with which the Cremonesi strove to take them over can be explained by the changes in the economic context of the decades bridging the twelfth and the thirteenth centuries.
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