The author focuses on the urban world to reformulate the question traditionally interpreted in terms of the entrepreneurial freedom of late medieval merchants: even in this context the notion of libertas, rather than absolutely defining the economic action of groups or people, was related in terms functional to their social and political qualities. The analysis of Italian city legislation, in particular of the regulations of the arts and of the market, highlights how the different degrees of belonging to the civitas guaranteed the spaces for economic action and commercial times: full freedom remained firmly in the hands of a few family groups and privileged while in the market squares of Italian cities farmers, artisans and traders and the vast world of subordinate work were destined to remain subordinate actors.
University of Trieste, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0001-5239-306X
Chapter Title
Spazi e tempi della libertà economica
Authors
Giacomo Todeschini
Language
Italian
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0382-1.14
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Publication Year
2024
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Book Title
Libertas e libertates nel tardo medioevo. Realtà italiane nel contesto europeo
Book Subtitle
Atti del XVI Convegno di studi San Miniato 11-13 ottobre 2018
Editors
Andrea Zorzi
Peer Reviewed
Number of Pages
278
Publication Year
2024
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© 2024 Author(s)
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Publisher Name
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0382-1
ISBN Print
979-12-215-0381-4
eISBN (pdf)
979-12-215-0382-1
eISBN (epub)
979-12-215-0383-8
Series Title
Centro di Studi sulla Civiltà del Tardo Medioevo San Miniato
Series ISSN
2704-5692
Series E-ISSN
2704-5706