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OverviewTwo 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 Rhne 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: William D. PadenPublisher: University of Toronto Press Imprint: University of Toronto Press Volume: 115 Dimensions: Width: 16.40cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.600kg ISBN: 9781442629349ISBN 10: 1442629347 Pages: 256 Publication Date: 11 April 2016 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable  The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Manuscripts 2. Chronology 3. Language 4. Description of Manuscripts T and N 5. The World around the Registers 6. Historical Change in the Toll Registers 7. This Edition 8. Afterword: Toll Registers and Troubadours Occitan Texts and English Translations MS T: Tarascon, Archives Municipales AA9, ff. 3r-17 Text Translation MS N: Newberry Library (Chicago) / Northwestern University (Evanston) MS 1; Newberry Library, Vault Case MS 220 Text Translation Marginalia Textual Notes Glossary Appendices Index of English Names of Commodities Concordance of Items, as numbered by Bondurand, with folio and line in MS T 184Reviews'This is a very fine and orderly edition complete with all trappings... Glossary is a real gem... The glossary even provides indexes of the words named and we thus get a very fine tool to approach Occitan texts from the period - whether in prose or poetry.' -- Karen Schousboe Medieval Histories: News about the Middle Ages, 18 August 2016 ‘This is a very fine and orderly edition complete with all trappings… Glossary is a real gem… The glossary even provides indexes of the words named and we thus get a very fine tool to approach Occitan texts from the period – whether in prose or poetry.’ -- Karen Schousboe * Medieval Histories: News about the Middle Ages, 18 August 2016 * ‘Magisterially edited and translated…. Two Medieval Occitan Toll Registers will reward not only scholars of Occitan, Provence and France, but will also benefit those interested in medieval Mediterranean culture and European trade networks.’ -- Sebastian Sobecki * Speculum vol 92:04:2017 * Author InformationWilliam D. Paden is a professor emeritus of French in the Department of French and Italian at Northwestern University. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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