Reframing the “Documentary Revolution” in Medieval Italy

Abstract

In the last quarter of the nineteenth century, the clerics of the congregation of San Salvatore in Naples were preparing a petition, or maybe a legal defense, regarding their taxes.Someone from the congregation appears to have been delegated to research and to document their exemption from a tax called the collecta, or as historian Hiroshi Takayama termed it "the notorious collecta."Imposts identified with this fearsome appellation first appear under the  This essay is dedicated to all the students who have explored "medieval Italy" with me in History 149b: Italy in the Age of Dante, especially Ethan Yee and Patrick Morgan.

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