Fiscalità e circolazione di capitali nel tardo medioevo: introduzione

This paper introduces the monographic section on Fiscality and Capital Circulation in the Late Middle Ages. Initially it focuses the bourdieusian notion of ‘capital’ and the ways the latter can help in shaping new questions on fiscality that better fit the complexity of the field, in which political, economic, and social spheres overlap. This approach allows the participants to move from recent historiography and rethink the circulation and distribution of resources that are not necessarily economic/material, not only by states. It also helps bring to the fore the interplay between the various agencies (communities, lordships, individuals, ecclesiastic institutions …) involved in the control and management of fiscal rights. The second part of the introduction highlights how the individual contributions collected here interact with this idea, taking suggestions and hints from the individual cases to better frame the potential of the research questionnaire.