Finanzas municipales y patriciado urbano. Valencia a finales del Trescientos

Abstract

The methodological disconnexion between institutions and social economic history becomes more and more patent in the study of properties, finances and tax systems, when it becomes indispensable to treat the whole according to the generical framework of power history. The conjunction between patrician oligarchy and the finances of the medieval Valencia, derives from the monopoly that some city lineages exercised on the municipal power and from the politico-economic projection of group interests on the public administration. The political administration and the financial projection of two patrician dynasties, as well as that of the Marrades or the Suau, could easily be followed through the finance of wheat supply, through the collection of interests on the municipal debe or through the very collection mechanisms.