 A Two-Sided Kingdom: A Sicily of Export and Urban Wheat SupplyIda Fazio ()
Chapter Chapter 8 in Italian Victualling Systems in the Early Modern Age, 16th to 18th Century, 2021, pp 251-278 from Palgrave Macmillan Abstract: Abstract The Sicilian victualling system sought to guarantee both the subsistence of cities and the income of the great aristocratic landowners interested in the wheat market. A set of economic mechanisms, social practices, and political conflicts unfolded around the urban victualling offices, dealing with wheat and flour distribution, bread production, contracts for the procurement of supplies, and the price system of the mete, run by political elites. North-eastern Sicily was exclusively consumer, while the central-western area produced surpluses for the foreign market and for the rest of the island, including Palermo—the capital city—and Messina—a rich and hungry city—. The centralised office of the maestro portulano granted exports through the fiscal and commercial infrastructure of the caricatori, and export permits were traded in a highly dynamic speculative market. Keywords: Sicily; Wheat trade; Urban victualling administrations; Palermo; Messina (search for similar items in EconPapers) There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it. Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:pal:palscp:978-3-030-42064-2_8 Ordering information: This item can be ordered from DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-42064-2_8 Access Statistics for this chapter More chapters in Palgrave Studies in Economic History from Palgrave Macmillan |
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