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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter UTP eBook-Package 2014-2016
• VerfasserIn: Paden, William D.,
• Author: Paden, William D.,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2017]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: Medieval Academy Books ; 115
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (256 p.) :; 3 maps

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.

Table of 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