Chapter Management and governance of the kingdom’s finances. Financial literacy as useful knowledge in late-medieval Aragon (1365-1515)

This paper’s primary research question is to what extent change in mechanisms and instruments of financial management proceeding from trading knowledge improved the efficiency of late-medieval poli-ties. To do so, we have examined a territorial state experience in medie-val Iberia. In the mid-14th c...

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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-1120002025-07-17T10:01:30Z Chapter Management and governance of the kingdom’s finances. Financial literacy as useful knowledge in late-medieval Aragon (1365-1515) de la Torre Gonzalo, Sandra Public debt Tax collection Accountancy Merchants Medieval Iberia thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociology thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociology This paper’s primary research question is to what extent change in mechanisms and instruments of financial management proceeding from trading knowledge improved the efficiency of late-medieval poli-ties. To do so, we have examined a territorial state experience in medie-val Iberia. In the mid-14th century, Aragon designed its autonomous fiscal system managed by a kingdom’s finance. The new supra-local pol-ity made use of financial accounts to keep track of revenues and to ac-cess credit, which led to the refinement of documentary practice and monitoring methods. The analysis brings up the agency of a group of merchants that shaped the functioning of the Aragonese treasury from budgeting to tax collecting. Particular attention is paid to the impact of the increasing prominence of financial numeracy on institutional ac-countability and governance. 2023-08-08T04:22:45Z 2023-08-08T04:22:45Z 2023-08-03T15:03:14Z 2023 chapter ONIX_20230803_9791221500929_28 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/74832 9791221500929 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/112000 eng Datini Studies in Economic History open access image/png image/jpeg Attribution 4.0 International Attribution 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/74832/1/9791221500929-21.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/74832/1/9791221500929-21.pdf Firenze University Press 10.36253/979-12-215-0092-9.21 10.36253/979-12-215-0092-9.21 2ec4474d-93b1-4cfa-b313-9c6019b51b1a L’economia della conoscenza: innovazione, produttività e crescita economica nei secoli XIII-XVIII / The knowledge economy: innovation, productivity and economic growth, 13th to 18th century 9791221500929 21 Florence open access
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Tax collection
Accountancy
Merchants
Medieval Iberia
thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociology
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de la Torre Gonzalo, Sandra
Chapter Management and governance of the kingdom’s finances. Financial literacy as useful knowledge in late-medieval Aragon (1365-1515)
title Chapter Management and governance of the kingdom’s finances. Financial literacy as useful knowledge in late-medieval Aragon (1365-1515)
title_full Chapter Management and governance of the kingdom’s finances. Financial literacy as useful knowledge in late-medieval Aragon (1365-1515)
title_fullStr Chapter Management and governance of the kingdom’s finances. Financial literacy as useful knowledge in late-medieval Aragon (1365-1515)
title_full_unstemmed Chapter Management and governance of the kingdom’s finances. Financial literacy as useful knowledge in late-medieval Aragon (1365-1515)
title_short Chapter Management and governance of the kingdom’s finances. Financial literacy as useful knowledge in late-medieval Aragon (1365-1515)
title_sort chapter management and governance of the kingdom s finances financial literacy as useful knowledge in late medieval aragon 1365 1515
topic Public debt
Tax collection
Accountancy
Merchants
Medieval Iberia
thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociology
thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociology
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Tax collection
Accountancy
Merchants
Medieval Iberia
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