The management of papal collections and long-distance trade in the thirteenth-century Czech lands
The paper is focused on cooperation between papal collectors and Italian merchants in thirteenth-century Central Europe. Money collected there were sent to Rome via Venice. The author therefore turns attention to the remarkable timing of King Ottokar´s reforms of weights, measures and coins with leg...
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| Format: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
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Mélanges de l’École française de Rome - Moyen Âge
2015
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| Online Zugang: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Zusammenfassung: | The paper is focused on cooperation between papal collectors and Italian merchants in thirteenth-century Central Europe. Money collected there were sent to Rome via Venice. The author therefore turns attention to the remarkable timing of King Ottokar´s reforms of weights, measures and coins with legal and administrative reforms in Venice in the 1260s and 1270s, which it is argued was as an important precondition for the development of contacts with Italy. He shows how the concentration of papal collections at the court of Bruno of Schauenburg, Bishop of Olomouc, in the early 1260s stimulated long-distance trade in this Moravian city, as is evident from archaeological finds of Venetian grossi and glass. He deals with the size of collectoria and with financial amounts appointed for collectors. His aim is likewise to bring into focus connections between the 1299 conflict among merchants in Florence and the arrival of some of them to Central Europe. |
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