Template-type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Fabio Gatti
Title: Urban Autonomy: Fiefs, Communities and King Owned Towns in South Italy (1000-1806)
Abstract: Urban governance has been considered a key feature in the political and economic development in Europe in the medieval and early modern times. This paper aims  to explore the different institutional settings that characterized the community organization in the Kingdom of Naples, with a particular attention to the case of the King Owned Towns (KOTs), which somehow resembled the North Italian commune experience. Our exploration uncovers experiences of  urban autonomy in South Italy, that so fa has  been missed in the  modern literature on historical urban development, that focused its attention on the case of North Italian and North-West European city’s institutional development. 
Classification-JEL: D72, H10, N44, O43, O52, K00, R10
Keywords: Economic History, Political Institutions, History, Local Economics, Culture, Italy
Length: 57
Number: 22183
Creation-Date: 2022
File-URL: https://repec.unibocconi.it/baffic/baf/papers/cbafwp22183.pdf
File-Format: application/pdf
File-Size: 1152
Handle: RePEc:baf:cbafwp:cbafwp22183