Inequalities in access to the food market: the city as a producer of norms in the fourteenth century (Low Countries)

Wilkin, Alexis (2025) Inequalities in access to the food market: the city as a producer of norms in the fourteenth century (Low Countries). In: Socio-Economic Inequalities during the Conjuncture of the Fourteenth Century. Sources and Methods, Dynamics and Representations (Italy and Europe, c. 1270 - c. 1350). Reti Medievali E-Book (52). Firenze University Press, Firenze, pp. 267-287. ISBN 979-12-215-0705-8

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Abstract

[IT] L’articolo esamina l’organizzazione diseguale del mercato del grano nei Paesi Bassi nel XIV secolo. Successivamente, analizza il modo in cui alcune città compensavano le loro difficoltà di accesso al cibo affermando la propria leadership sui centri demici secondari e sul loro hinterland, e il modo in cui la legislazione urbana garantiva specifici privilegi di accesso a determinate categorie di acquirenti o venditori. Infine, l’articolo discute la cautela che deve essere esercitata quando si cerca di collegare la fioritura della legislazione urbana nel XIV secolo al contesto di crisi ripetute tipico di quel periodo. / [EN] This article examines the unequal organisation of the grain market in the Low Countries in the fourteenth century. It looks in turn at the ways in which several towns compensated for their difficulties in accessing food by asserting their leadership over secondary towns and their hinterland, and at the ways in which urban legislation guaranteed specific privileges of access to certain categories of buyers or sellers. Finally, the article discusses the caution that must be exercised in attempting to relate the flowering of urban legislation in the fourteenth century to the context of repeated crises during that century.

Tipologia del documento:	Capitolo di libro
Parole chiave:	Medioevo; secolo XIV; Paesi Bassi; mercato alimentare; diseguaglianze; legislazione urbana; Middle Ages; 14th century; Low Countries; food market; inequality; urban regulation
Soggetto:	D History General and Old World > D History (General) > D111 Medieval History
Depositato da:	dr Vincenzo De Luise
Depositato il:	06 Set 2026 05:22
Ultima modifica:	06 Set 2026 05:30
URI:	https://www.rmoa.unina.it/id/eprint/10452

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