La Hacienda medieval en Álava, Guipúzcoa y Vizcaya

Abstract

Various illustrious historians have pointed out the value of studying medieval public finance. In addition to the historical vision derived from the analysis of medieval public finance systems and their social fabrics, the subject provides an excellent complement for those wishing to study medieval history from a different perspective. Local, provincial and royal finance systems generated a web of political, social and economic interests, which clearly need to be disentangled from the historical point of view. This paper assesses the principal historiographic contributions and proposes various paths for analysing the topic in greater depth in the future.