Overview
- Explains why Portuguese fiscal history is understudied and underrepresented within the international literature
- Highlights the main lines of research developed since the initial studies on this subject during the 1960s
- Establishes initial comparative standards in the light of the Portuguese case’s first steps and developments
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Finance (PSHF)
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Medieval and Early Modern Portuguese State Finances: Sources and Evidence
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The Development of State Finance: Portugal in European Context
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About this book
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.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Amélia Aguiar Andrade is a Full Professor in Medieval History at the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences, New University of Lisbon (NOVA FCSH), Portugal. She has held numerous scientific and university positions, in Portugal and abroad, being recently accepted in the College of Expert Reviewers of the European Science Foundation (ESF). Since 2011, she has been Director of the Mario Sottomayor Cardia library and the NOVA FCSH Documentation Centers and, since 2016, the National coordinator of DARIAH —Description the Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities and the ROSSIO's Infrastructure Representative.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Portugal in a European Context
Book Subtitle: Essays on Taxation and Fiscal Policies in Late Medieval and Early Modern Western Europe, 1100-1700
Editors: Rodrigo da Costa Dominguez, Amélia Aguiar Andrade
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in the History of Finance
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-06227-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-06226-1Published: 02 January 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-06229-2Published: 03 January 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-06227-8Published: 01 January 2023
Series ISSN: 2662-5164
Series E-ISSN: 2662-5172
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXII, 331
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 3 illustrations in colour
Topics: Financial History, Economic History, European History