Publisher's description:
The first full-length study of mainland southern Italy's domestic market in the late Middle Ages, this book discusses the interaction between population, the market, and the region's institutional framework, in the context of the impact of the late medieval 'crisis' on the European economy. Based on new or little-used documentary evidence, it adopts an interdisciplinary approach and combines economic history with elements of economic theory to reassesses common knowledge on demographic and urbanization trends, the organization of the domestic market, the role of the state, and on actual patterns of agricultural production, industrial activity and commercial itineraries. The result is a fresh look at the late medieval economy of the kingdom of Naples, which, it seems now, is worth studying for its own merit.

Table of contents:
LIST OF TABLES
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER ONE A Historiographical Problem: The Kingdom's Economy in the late Middle Ages
CHAPTER TWO Natural and Human Endowments
CHAPTER THREE The Organization of the Neapolitan Market
CHAPTER FOUR Changes in the Pattern of Production and Trade: Agriculture
CHAPTER FIVE Changes in the Pattern of Production and Trade: Textile Manufacture
EPILOGUE Expanding State Jurisdiction
APPENDIX A The Kingdom's Population in Figures
APPENDIX B Maritime Transport from the Correspondence of the Sommaria, 1461–1516
APPENDIX C Grants of Toll Franchise to Individual Towns
APPENDIX D Regional Fairs in Southern Italy, c. 1200–1550
APPENDIX E Livestock Trade at the Land Customs of Abruzzo, 1446–1504
APPENDIX F Note on Currency and Measurements
APPENDIX G Maps
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX