LEADER 04403nam 22005535 450 001 9910483999903321 005 20230810170509.0 010 $a3-030-42064-7 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-030-42064-2 035 $a(CKB)4100000011801720 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6522062 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6522062 035 $a(OCoLC)1245663812 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-030-42064-2 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000011801720 100 $a20210317d2021 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aItalian Victualling Systems in the Early Modern Age, 16th to 18th Century /$fedited by Luca Clerici 205 $a1st ed. 2021. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2021. 215 $a1 online resource (xxvii, 301 pages) $cillustrations, maps 225 1 $aPalgrave Studies in Economic History,$x2662-6500 311 $a3-030-42063-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a1. Italian victualling systems in the early modern age: an overview and a critical assessment; Luca Clerici -- 2. Complexity and efficiency: Milan in the 17th and 18th centuries; Luciano Maffi and Luca Mocarelli -- 3. One city, two economic areas: wheat and olive oil trade in Bergamo between Venice and Milan; Fabrizio Costantini -- 4. Provisioning a medium-sized town in a polycentric state: Vicenza and Venice, 1516?1629; Luca Clerici -- 5. Managing abundance: victualling offices and cereals merchants in 18th century Ferrara; Giulio Ongaro -- 6. The wealth of periphery? Food provisioning, merchants, and cereals in the Papal States: the case of the March of Ancona; Luca Andreoni and Marco Moroni -- 7. The Roman Annona and its market in the 18th century; Donatella Strangio -- 8. A two-sided kingdom: a Sicily of export and urban wheat supply; Ida Fazio. 330 $aThis book illustrates the complexity and variety of victualling systems in early modern Italy. For a long time, the historiography of urban provisioning systems in late medieval and early modern times featured a conceptual opposition between victualling administration and the market. In this book, on the contrary, the term ?victualling system? (sistema annonario) is employed according to its historical meaning, designating an organised set of public and private channels, evolved typically in urban contexts, for the procurement and distribution of the goods essential for the daily life of common people. According to this definition, specifically, a victualling system included also the market, as one of the different channels for the procurement and distribution of goods. What characterises the Italian case in the European context are both the earliness of these institutions and the long-lasting political and economic fragmentation of the peninsula: these factors determined the great variety and complexity of the solutions adopted. In order to show these features, the analysis focuses on four central issues: the configuration of systems, institutional pragmatism and variety, articulation of circuits, and plurality of actors. The seven relevant case-studies included in this book, all based on direct archival research, cover a wide range of geographical contexts and institutional arrangements, from the North to the South of the peninsula, and include both large-sized cities (Milan and Rome), medium-sized cities (Bergamo, Vicenza, and Ferrara), and entire regions (the March of Ancona, and Sicily). This allows the reader to appreciate regional and local differences in detail, making this book of interest for academics and scholars in economic, social, and urban history. 410 0$aPalgrave Studies in Economic History,$x2662-6500 606 $aEconomic history 606 $aItaly$xHistory 606 $aEconomic History 606 $aHistory of Italy 615 0$aEconomic history. 615 0$aItaly$xHistory. 615 14$aEconomic History. 615 24$aHistory of Italy. 676 $a658.7 676 $a338.509450903 702 $aClerici$b Luca 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910483999903321 996 $aItalian victualling systems in the Early Modern Age, 16th to 18th century$91905151 997 $aUNINA