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Portugal in a European Context

Essays on Taxation and Fiscal Policies in Late Medieval and Early Modern Western Europe, 1100-1700

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Editors:
  1. Rodrigo da Costa Dominguez

    1. Interdisciplinary Centre of Social Sciences, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal

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  2. Amélia Aguiar Andrade

    1. Institute of Medieval Studies—NOVA FCSH, Nova University of Lisbon, Lisboa, Portugal

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  • Explains why Portuguese fiscal history is understudied and underrepresented within the international literature
  • Highlights the main lines of research developed since the initial studies on this subject during the 1960s
  • Establishes initial comparative standards in the light of the Portuguese case’s first steps and developments

Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Finance (PSHF)

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxii
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  2. Introduction

    • Amélia Aguiar Andrade, Rodrigo da Costa Dominguez
    Pages 1-13

  3. Medieval and Early Modern Portuguese State Finances: Sources and Evidence

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 15-15
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    2. The Study of Medieval Fiscal History in Portugal: Results and Problems (1951–2020)

      • Amélia Aguiar Andrade
      Pages 17-43

    3. The Collection of Annates in Portugal During the Papacy of Avignon, c. 1316–1377: Just Another Case of Apostolic Tax-Collecting in a Realm at the Back of Beyond?

      • Mário Farelo
      Pages 45-66

    4. Is the Economy an Issue? Kings and Economic Legislation in Medieval Portugal

      • Hermínia Vasconcelos Vilar
      Pages 67-89

    5. A Difficult Transition: Portuguese State Finances Between Later Medieval and Early Modern Times, c. 1415–1530

      • Rodrigo da Costa Dominguez
      Pages 91-113

    6. Taxes and Fiscal Institutions in a Maritime Empire, 15th–16th Centuries: A Comparative View of Overseas’ Territories Under the Portuguese Crown

      • Susana Münch Miranda
      Pages 115-137

    7. Portugal in a Broader Perspective: The Later Middle Ages and Some Remarks for a Transition Towards the Early Modern Period

      • Amélia Aguiar Andrade, Rodrigo da Costa Dominguez
      Pages 139-148

  4. The Development of State Finance: Portugal in European Context

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 149-149
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    2. Introduction—Constructing the Modern Fiscal States: Ruptures, Changes, and Permanencies

      • Rodrigo da Costa Dominguez, Tony K. Moore
      Pages 151-157

    3. The ‘Resource Curse’ of Mediaeval English State Finance, C.1155–1453

      • Tony K. Moore
      Pages 159-176

    4. A History of Taxation in the Kingdom of France (Twelfth to Fifteenth Centuries): Policies, Rules and Practices

      • Florent Garnier
      Pages 177-200

    5. Fiscal Tradition and Innovation in Italy, 1350–1650

      • Luciano Pezzolo
      Pages 201-218

    6. A Treasury in Transition: Changes and Continuity in the Management of Castilian State Finances During the Reign of Isabella I (1474–1504)

      • Pablo Ortego Rico
      Pages 219-245

    7. Public Debt in Late Medieval Crown of Aragon: A(Nother) Financial Revolution?

      • Albert Reixach Sala, Pere Verdés Pijuan
      Pages 247-277

    8. Why Holland Had a Financial Revolution, but Flanders and Brabant Did not

      • Marjolein ’t Hart
      Pages 279-298

    9. Public Finance and Fiscal Policy. The Papal States in Early Modern Age

      • Fausto Piola Caselli
      Pages 299-324

    10. Portugal and the Europe: Similarities, Bridges and Potential Avenues to Explore in Future Works on Comparative Fiscal History

      • Rodrigo da Costa Dominguez, Amélia Aguiar Andrade
      Pages 325-331
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About this book

Although Portugal was one of the first European states with stable borders, the process of the making of a Portuguese fiscal state still remains to be studied in detail. This volume brings together studies on the development of the Portuguese fiscal state within a comparative perspective in relation to other kingdoms across Europe, such as Castile and Aragon, England, Tuscany, the Papal States, Holland and France, in order to bring Portugal into the broader and comparative international debate about the development of the fiscal state.



As a very distinctive case, Portugal remains understudied and underrepresented in the broader literature on the development of fiscal states. There are relatively few studies on the building of a fiscal state in Portugal that are accessible to an international audience. This book will make a fundamental contribution to this field, which is still full of untapped potential. It will combine the latest theory and comparative context with a detailed reconstruction of Portuguese state finance, taking a longer chronological frame that follows its development from the medieval through to the early modern period. It will also make the latest research from Portuguese scholars available to a wider, international audience, and will be of particular interest to researchers and students of financial and economic history. ​

Editors and Affiliations

  • Interdisciplinary Centre of Social Sciences, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal

    Rodrigo da Costa Dominguez

  • Institute of Medieval Studies—NOVA FCSH, Nova University of Lisbon, Lisboa, Portugal

    Amélia Aguiar Andrade

About the editors

​Rodrigo da Costa Dominguez is currently a Junior Research Associate and Assistant Director of the Interdisciplinary Center of Social Sciences (CICS) at the University of Minho, in Braga, Portugal. He is also a member of international economic, fiscal and social history associations in Portugal, Spain, Brazil, Latin America and United States, being also President-elect of the Economic and Business History Society (EBHS – USA) for the mandate 2020-2021.

Amélia Aguiar Andrade is a Full Professor in Medieval History at the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences, New University of Lisbon (NOVA FCSH), Portugal. She has held numerous scientific and university positions, in Portugal and abroad, being recently accepted in the College of Expert Reviewers of the European Science Foundation (ESF). Since 2011, she has been Director of the Mario Sottomayor Cardia library and the NOVA FCSH Documentation Centers and, since 2016, the National coordinator of DARIAH —Description the Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities and the ROSSIO's Infrastructure Representative.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Portugal in a European Context

  • Book Subtitle: Essays on Taxation and Fiscal Policies in Late Medieval and Early Modern Western Europe, 1100-1700

  • Editors: Rodrigo da Costa Dominguez, Amélia Aguiar Andrade

  • Series Title: Palgrave Studies in the History of Finance

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-06227-8

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: History, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-06226-1Published: 02 January 2023

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-06229-2Published: 03 January 2024

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-06227-8Published: 01 January 2023

  • Series ISSN: 2662-5164

  • Series E-ISSN: 2662-5172

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXII, 331

  • Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 3 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Financial History, Economic History, European History

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