{"title":"From redistribution to the market: large estates, exchanges, markets and tolls in northern Italy (ninth–eleventh centuries)","authors":"Alessio Fiore","doi":"10.1111/emed.12781","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p>The aim of this article is to discuss forms of domestic exchange in the north of the kingdom of Italy between the late ninth and early eleventh centuries. In the early part of this period the economy of the area was based on large rural estates and redistributive exchanges. Only from the late tenth century did economic structures change, with a sharp increase in commercial activities, and a focus of manufacturing activity on cities. However, this reconfiguration of the economic system, fully accomplished by the mid-eleventh century, did not result in an economic take-off.</p>","PeriodicalId":44508,"journal":{"name":"Early Medieval Europe","volume":"33 4","pages":"467-496"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9000,"publicationDate":"2025-07-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Early Medieval Europe","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/emed.12781","RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"MEDIEVAL & RENAISSANCE STUDIES","Score":null,"Total":0}
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The aim of this article is to discuss forms of domestic exchange in the north of the kingdom of Italy between the late ninth and early eleventh centuries. In the early part of this period the economy of the area was based on large rural estates and redistributive exchanges. Only from the late tenth century did economic structures change, with a sharp increase in commercial activities, and a focus of manufacturing activity on cities. However, this reconfiguration of the economic system, fully accomplished by the mid-eleventh century, did not result in an economic take-off.
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Early Medieval Europe provides an indispensable source of information and debate on the history of Europe from the later Roman Empire to the eleventh century. The journal is a thoroughly interdisciplinary forum, encouraging the discussion of archaeology, numismatics, palaeography, diplomatic, literature, onomastics, art history, linguistics and epigraphy, as well as more traditional historical approaches. It covers Europe in its entirety, including material on Iceland, Ireland, the British Isles, Scandinavia and Continental Europe (both west and east).