出版社:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas
摘要:Since the end of the 14th century, many Catalan towns were asked to issue memorials of rents that, in the one hand, would facilitate the administration of the huge debt they had got into previously and, on the other hand, would clarify the juridical situation of each rent to avoid misunderstandings with its owner. This article aims at analyzing two memorials of rents written up between 1410 and 1421 by the local authorities of Castelló d’Empúries, the main city of one of the most important lordships of Catalonia. With the help of these volumes, we are trying to solve some of the questions about the urban finances in medieval Catalonia: what the level of indebtedness that the noble places attained; what financial policies the urban rulers put forward to reduce the volume of the annual interests; and, finally, what the geographical origin and the social profile of the municipal creditors was.