Facing the Pandemic in the Savoyard Heartlands: Local Communities and the Comital Administration, 1348–1356
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ABSTRACT Through an examination of the detailed accounts of three castellanies, this article assesses the Black Death’s socioeconomic impact on central Savoy, focusing on the administration and local communities’ response. By complementing the demographic data from the occasional accounts of direct taxation (subsidia) with the regular castellany accounts’ figures on revenues, grain prices and wages, the article highlights the resilience of the lands directly under the comital administration during and in the aftermath of the plague. A key role in the recovery was played by social mobility, with the comital domains, and in particular the castellany seats, attracting the lion’s share of internal migration at the expense of local seigneuries. Some notable failures notwithstanding, the comital administration’s response was rooted in its experiments with institutional accountability over several decades, complemented by a novel flexibility in negotiating matters of economic governance with the local notables.
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I. Epurescu-Pascovici
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- 10.1080/03044181.2024.2434979
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