Italian Victualling Systems in the Early Modern Age, 16th to 18th Century by Luca Clerici
English | EPUB | 2021 | 311 Pages | ISBN : 3030420639 | 35.7 MB
This 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.