Il costo degli stati. Politica e prelievo nell’Occidente medievale (VI-XIV secolo)
Sandro Carocci e Simone M. Collavini
The cost of states. Politics and exactions in the
medieval West (sixth to fourteenth centuries)
What were the models and ideal-types through which
historians of the medieval West have approached the topic
of the financing of the state and other institutions? First
conceived in the context of a meeting between historians
of the Christian West, Islam and of Byzantium, this paper
offers a historiographical analysis, highlighting some
contradictions and suggesting new avenues of research.
The focus is on three basic questions: 1) Who financed
the creation and functioning of political structures
and how? 2) How were political structures themselves
influenced by the forms of their funding? 3) What were
the social and economic consequences of the circulation
of resources that originated in politics?
Parole chiave: Stati medievali, Imposte, Signoria, New
Fiscal History
Keywords: Medieval States, Taxes, Lordship, New Fiscal
History
Violenza, fascismo e fascistizzazione: alcune riflessioni comparative dall’esperienza spagnola
Javier Rodrigo
Violence fascism and fascistization: some comparative
reflexions from Spanish experience
Almost no historian has spoken of fascism in
Franco’s Spain without denying it altogether, modifying
its conceptual boundaries or adding terminological
parameters (para-, proto-, pseudo-, -ized). In this
paper, through a critical review of some of the central
features in the field of historical interpretation of
fascism, comparative analysis is employed to re-examine
the current characterization of the Franco Regime
and identify it as fascist during the Civil wartime and
immediate post-war period. In examining some of the
latest historiographical debates and advances, this paper
proposes a coherent lecture of Spanish fascism.
Parole chiave: Spagna, Guerra civile, Fascismo, Violenza,
Storia comparata
Keywords: Spain, Civil War, Fascism, Violence,
Comparative History
Un punto d’arrivo, un punto di partenza. Discutendo di Paesaggio Costituzione cemento
Luigi Piccioni
On Salvatore Settis’s
Paesaggio Costituzione Cemento
The book written by Salvatore Settis represents at
the same time an academic, well researched study on the
story of landscape and heritage preservation in Italy and
a harsh denunciation of the failure of the Italian ruling
elites in implementing effective conservation politics. The
author illustrates the scientific and political value of the
book, discusses its main argumentations and highlights
some contradictions whose further analysis could enrich
the flourishing Italian debate on the subject.
Parole chiave: Italia, Paesaggio, Tutela, Storia
Keywords: Italy, Landscape, Preservation, History