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Two Medieval Occitan Toll Registers from Tarascon
William D. Paden (Author)
9781442629349
Hardback, published 11 April 2016
256 pages, 3 maps
23.5 x 16.4 x 2.4 cm, 0.6 kg
‘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.’ ‘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.’
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.
Introduction Occitan Texts and English Translations MS N: Newberry Library (Chicago) / Northwestern University (Evanston) MS 1; Newberry Library, Vault Case MS 220 Marginalia
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
MS T: Tarascon, Archives Municipales AA9, ff. 3r-17
Text
Translation
Text
Translation
Textual Notes
Glossary
Appendices
Index of English Names of Commodities
Concordance of Items, as numbered by Bondurand, with folio and line in MS T 184