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 ecomic, 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 Rhone between Avign 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.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Toronto Press
ISBN-10
1442629347
ISBN-13
9781442629349
eBay Product ID (ePID)
221345994
Product Key Features
Author
William D. Paden
Format
Hardback
Language
English
Subject
Regional History
Type
Textbook
Additional Product Features
Place of Publication
Toronto
Series Part/Volume Number
115
Series Title
Medieval Academy Books
Content Note
3, 3 Maps
Author Biography
William D. Paden is a professor emeritus of French in the Department of French and Italian at Northwestern University.