dc.contributor.author | Angelucci, C | |
dc.contributor.author | Meraglia, S | |
dc.contributor.author | Voigtländer, N | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2022-11-08T09:34:46Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2022-10-01 | |
dc.date.updated | 2022-11-07T16:27:16Z | |
dc.description.abstract | We study the emergence of urban self-governance in the late medieval period. We focus on England after the Norman Conquest of 1066, building a novel comprehensive dataset of 554 medieval towns. During the Commercial Revolution (twelfth to thirteenth centuries), many merchant towns obtained Farm Grants: the right of self-governed tax collection and law enforcement. Self-governance, in turn, was a stepping stone for parliamentary representation: Farm Grant towns were much more likely to be summoned directly to the medieval English Parliament than otherwise similar towns. We also show that self-governed towns strengthened the role of Parliament and shaped national institutions over the subsequent centuries. | en_GB |
dc.format.extent | 3441-3487 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Vol. 112(10), pp. 3441-3487 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.1257/aer.20200885 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/131684 | |
dc.identifier | ORCID: 0000-0001-9110-5702 (Meraglia, Simone) | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | American Economic Association | en_GB |
dc.rights | © 2022 American Economic Association. | en_GB |
dc.title | How Merchant Towns Shaped Parliaments: From the Norman Conquest of England to the Great Reform Act | en_GB |
dc.type | Article | en_GB |
dc.date.available | 2022-11-08T09:34:46Z | |
dc.identifier.issn | 0002-8282 | |
dc.description | This is the final version. Available from the American Economic Association via the DOI in this record | en_GB |
dc.identifier.journal | American Economic Review | en_GB |
dc.relation.ispartof | American Economic Review, 112(10) | |
dc.rights.uri | http://www.rioxx.net/licenses/all-rights-reserved | en_GB |
rioxxterms.version | VoR | en_GB |
rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate | 2022-10-01 | |
rioxxterms.type | Journal Article/Review | en_GB |
refterms.dateFCD | 2022-11-08T09:32:36Z | |
refterms.versionFCD | VoR | |
refterms.dateFOA | 2022-11-08T09:34:51Z | |
refterms.panel | C | en_GB |