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Portugal in a Broader Perspective: The Later Middle Ages and Some Remarks for a Transition Towards the Early Modern Period

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A short summary of what the previous chapters and the surviving sources can tell us about Portuguese state finances.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Recent investigations are revealing more tax sources held in municipal archives. Gonçalves & Rosa (2020) and Silva (2022).

  2. 2.

    See the considerations and bibliographical indications referred to in the chapter The Study of Medieval Fiscal History in Portugal.

  3. 3.

    Garnier (2008).

  4. 4.

    Teixeira (1993), Silva (2005), Andrade and Costa (2011), Brockey (2016), Neto (2017) and Rodrigues (2017).

  5. 5.

    See the chapter 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?

  6. 6.

    Linehan (2013).

  7. 7.

    Boissellier (2012).

  8. 8.

    See the chapter Is the economy an issue? Kings and economic legislation in medieval Portugal.

  9. 9.

    Homem (2017) and Andrade and Miranda (2017).

  10. 10.

    See the chapter Is the economy an issue? Kings and economic legislation in medieval Portugal;

  11. 11.

    Hespanha and Homem (1999).

  12. 12.

    See the chapter A difficult transition: Portuguese State finances between later medieval and early modern times, c. 1415–1530.

  13. 13.

    See the chapter Taxes and fiscal institutions in a maritime empire, fifteenth-sixteenth centuries: a comparative view of overseas’ territories under the Portuguese Crown.

  14. 14.

    See the chapter The study of Medieval Fiscal History in Portugal.

  15. 15.

    See same examples in Gonçalves (1968).

  16. 16.

    Gonçalves (1964, 1987), Henriques (2008), Dominguez (2017).

  17. 17.

    Gonçalves (1999).

  18. 18.

    A good example of this review of documentation thinking is the project, currently under development iFORAL—Portuguese municipal charters in the Middle Ages: an historical and linguistic approach in the digital era.

  19. 19.

    Reis (2002).

  20. 20.

    Chorão (1990).

  21. 21.

    Sousa (1985, 1989).

  22. 22.

    Fernandes (2020).

  23. 23.

    Silva (2012).

  24. 24.

    Ladero Quesada (1997)

  25. 25.

    See a list of Cortes documentation already published in Rosa (2020: 168–169).

  26. 26.

    Sousa (1990, vol. 1).

  27. 27.

    Sousa (1990, vol. 2).

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Andrade, A.A., Dominguez, R.d.C. (2023). Portugal in a Broader Perspective: The Later Middle Ages and Some Remarks for a Transition Towards the Early Modern Period. In: Dominguez, R.d.C., Andrade, A.A. (eds) Portugal in a European Context. Palgrave Studies in the History of Finance. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-06227-8_7

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