The paper examines the case of the acquisition and management of the farm of Larizzate, near Vercelli, by the hospital of Sant'Andrea of Vercelli, in a period going from the twenties of the thirteenth century to the early fifteenth century. A comparison between the data provided by the agrarian pacts and the data made available by the periodical accounts that recorded the trend of the give and take between the owner and the dependent farmers shows the discrepancy between the services due and actually paid by the hospital employees in Larizzate. An analysis of the account books reveals, on the one hand, the great importance of the work carried out by the employees for the hospital to offset the debts accrued by the former towards the latter; on the other hand, the importance of the works for the construction and restoration of the defensive structures with which the farm was equipped. These fortifications were an expression of the lordly power exercised by the institution over the population gravitating around the farm, which can also be seen, albeit in a discontinuous manner, from other sources.
University of Turin, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0002-9198-6834
Titolo del capitolo
La signoria dell’ospedale di Sant’Andrea di Vercelli su Larizzate
Autori
Antonio Olivieri
Lingua
Italian
DOI
10.36253/978-88-5518-427-4.07
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Anno di pubblicazione
2021
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© 2021 Author(s)
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Titolo del libro
La signoria rurale nell’Italia del tardo medioevo. 3 L’azione politica locale
Curatori
Alessio Fiore, Luigi Provero
Opera sottoposta a peer review
Numero di pagine
252
Anno di pubblicazione
2021
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© 2021 Author(s)
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Editore
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/978-88-5518-427-4
ISBN Print
978-88-5518-426-7
eISBN (pdf)
978-88-5518-427-4
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978-88-5518-429-8
Collana
Reti Medievali E-Book
ISSN della collana
2704-6362
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2704-6079