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This book sets out a new interpretation of the transformations that affected relations between tenants and landowners throughout the central Middle Ages; offering an innovative perspective on how the change in the forms of land management reflected general transformations of the economy--with particular regard to the rise in overall demand.
About the author
Lorenzo Tabarrini completed his PhD at the University of Oxford under the supervision of Chris Wickham from 2015 to 2019. Subsequently, he spent a year in Brussels thanks to the financial support of the Wiener-Anspach Foundation, working on the notarial books preserved in the archives of Lucca and dating to the thirteenth century. He is currently a post-doc researcher at the University of Bologna and he is involved in a three-year project on the characteristics and the evolution of the royal landed estates in medieval Italy (from the ninth to the twelfth century).
Summary
This book sets out a new interpretation of the transformations that affected relations between tenants and landowners throughout the central Middle Ages; offering an innovative perspective on how the change in the forms of land management reflected general transformations of the economy--with particular regard to the rise in overall demand.
Additional text
The book, written with a calm and well-reasoned tone which constantly guides the reader throughout the different issues discussed in the volume,...the insights provided by Tabarrini also result of great interest for the study of sharecropping on a general level.
