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Pendant le Moyen Âge, le Portugal est apparu comme un espace périphérique indissociable de la Chrétienté européenne, dont la diversité naturelle avait établi un contraste entre le nord, ouvert aux influences atlantiques, et le sud, proche de la Méditerranée. Ce clivage valait aussi pour la réeeptivité aux influenees culturelles léguées par le passé, en particulier romaine et islamique, dont I'héritage était plus sensible dans les zones situées au sud du Tage, ce dont témoignait notamment une plus forte densité urbaine. Cependant, le territoire portugais s'insérait encore dans une Péninsule Ibérique marquée par des siècles deprésenee musulmane et par une longue période de conflits militaires liés au mouvement de eonquête territoriale ehrétienne. On peut dire que I'émergenee politique du royaume portugais, presque à la fin de la premiére moitié du XIIe siècle (1143), résulte en grande partie de cette situation, sans aueun doute déterrninante pour la constitution de cette mosaique d'entités politiques, earactéristique de la Péninsule Ibérique au Moyen Âge. Mais on peut dire que I'autonomie portugaise et surtout son affirmation territoriale doit être assoeiée a un proeessus d'affirmation en faisant face aux unités politiques voisines ça veut dire les royaumes de León et Castille.

Intro -- Foreword -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Introduction -- References -- Medieval and Early Modern Portuguese State Finances: Sources and Evidence -- The Study of Medieval Fiscal History in Portugal: Results and Problems (1951-2020) -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Primary Sources: Availability and Problems -- 3 Available Knowledge: Guidelines and Problems -- 4 Final Remarks: Some Perspectives for a Research Agenda on Medieval Portuguese Taxation -- References -- The Collection of Annates in Portugal During the Papacy of Avignon, c. 1316-1377: Just Another Case of Apostolic Tax-Collecting in a Realm at the Back of Beyond? -- 1 Features of Annates -- 2 The Sources of Information: From the Archivo Apostolico Vaticano (AAV) to the Portuguese Archives -- 3 Annate-Collecting in Portugal During the Papacy of Avignon -- References -- Is the Economy an Issue? Kings and Economic Legislation in Medieval Portugal -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Collation of Legislation -- 3 The Property of the King and the Property of the Realm -- 4 Currency, Borders and Taxation -- 5 Conclusion -- References -- A Difficult Transition: Portuguese State Finances Between Later Medieval and Early Modern Times, c. 1415-1530 -- 1 Mercantilist or Entrepreneurial? A Proposal of Historiographical Framing and the Debate of Theoretical Models for Portuguese Taxation -- About Some Criticism on the Sources and Approaches -- The Bonney-Ormrod model and Portugal State Finances: A Possible Match? -- 2 Difficulties of Building a New Fiscal Ethos -- Nobility Strategies Around the Maintenance of Fiscal and Economic Power -- Family Affairs and Its Impacts on Fiscal Policies and State Finances -- 3 Final Remarks -- References.

Although Portugal was one of the first European states with stable borders, the process of the making of a Portuguese fiscal state still remains to be studied in detail. This volume brings together studies on the development of the Portuguese fiscal state within a comparative perspective in relation to other kingdoms across Europe, such as Castile and Aragon, England, Tuscany, the Papal States, Holland and France, in order to bring Portugal into the broader and comparative international debate about the development of the fiscal state. As a very distinctive case, Portugal remains understudied and underrepresented in the broader literature on the development of fiscal states. There are relatively few studies on the building of a fiscal state in Portugal that are accessible to an international audience. This book will make a fundamental contribution to this field, which is still full of untapped potential. It will combine the latest theory and comparative context with a detailed reconstruction of Portuguese state finance, taking a longer chronological frame that follows its development from the medieval through to the early modern period. It will also make the latest research from Portuguese scholars available to a wider, international audience, and will be of particular interest to researchers and students of financial and economic history. ​