Southern Italy in the Late Middle Ages

Eleni Sakellariou, Ph.D. (1996) in History, University of Cambridge, is Assistant Professor of Medieval European History at the University of Crete. She has published in English, Italian and Greek, on late medieval southern Italian history and on the history of the eastern Mediterranean after the Crusades.

All those interested in European economic history, late medieval and early Renaissance Italian history, the history of southern Italy and of Iberian expansion in the medieval Mediterranean, as well as institutional historians, urban historians, and historical demographers.

LIST OF TABLES ... vii
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ... ix
INTRODUCTION ... 1

CHAPTER ONE A Historiographical Problem: The Kingdom’s Economy in the late Middle Ages ... 9
CHAPTER TWO Natural and Human Endowments ... 63
CHAPTER THREE The Organization of the Neapolitan Market ... 127
CHAPTER FOUR Changes in the Pattern of Production and Trade: Agriculture ... 231
CHAPTER FIVE Changes in the Pattern of Production and Trade: Textile Manufacture ... 334

EPILOGUE Expanding State Jurisdiction ... 418

APPENDIX A The Kingdom’s Population in Figures ... 439
APPENDIX B Maritime Transport from the Correspondence of the Sommaria, 1461–1516... 448
APPENDIX C Grants of Toll Franchise to Individual Towns ... 460
APPENDIX D Regional Fairs in Southern Italy, c. 1200–1550 .. 471
APPENDIX E Livestock Trade at the Land Customs of Abruzzo, 1446–1504 ... 489
APPENDIX F Note on Currency and Measurements ... 492
APPENDIX G Maps ... 494

BIBLIOGRAPHY ... 507
INDEX ... 548