The paper examines the productive trend of the various regions of Italy in the 5th century, the process of concentration of land ownership that would lead, in certain cases, to the disappearance of some villas or their downgrading to farms, warehouses, rural houses, or, on the contrary, the ‘enhancement’ of others; the division of property into estates, into parcels characterised mainly by productive autonomy. Special emphasis is devoted to a legislative provision issued by Valentinian III committing severe penalties to those mercatores who no longer operated in the cities, but in suburban and rural areas to evade tax demands. Valentinian III’s Novella xxiv seems to confirm the progres sive loss by the cities of their role as the privileged place of the market, the direct assumption of commercial functions by the large estates, the grafting of a mechanism through which private trade was satellite-absorbed and regulated by the large landed estates and took place in the sta tiones placed at road junctions, in the villages, in fairs, in rural markets, in the port outlets of the massae fundorum
Epilegomena sul paesaggio agrario e sulla dinamica economica in Italia nel V secolo d.C.: Valentiniano III e la furtiva negotiatio in obscuris ac reconditis locis
elena caliri
2023-01-01
Abstract
The paper examines the productive trend of the various regions of Italy in the 5th century, the process of concentration of land ownership that would lead, in certain cases, to the disappearance of some villas or their downgrading to farms, warehouses, rural houses, or, on the contrary, the ‘enhancement’ of others; the division of property into estates, into parcels characterised mainly by productive autonomy. Special emphasis is devoted to a legislative provision issued by Valentinian III committing severe penalties to those mercatores who no longer operated in the cities, but in suburban and rural areas to evade tax demands. Valentinian III’s Novella xxiv seems to confirm the progres sive loss by the cities of their role as the privileged place of the market, the direct assumption of commercial functions by the large estates, the grafting of a mechanism through which private trade was satellite-absorbed and regulated by the large landed estates and took place in the sta tiones placed at road junctions, in the villages, in fairs, in rural markets, in the port outlets of the massae fundorumPubblicazioni consigliate
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