The Evolution of Portuguese Fisheries in The Medieval and Early Modern Period. A Fiscal Debate

• Type: Chapter or Part of a Book
• Date: 2009

Authors

Inês Amorim (Author) FLUP

Book

Title: Beyond the Catch. Fisheries of the North Atlantic, the North Sea and the Baltic, 900-1850

1º Edition

Pages: 245-279

ISBN: 978 90 04 1697

Publisher: Brill

Indexing

Scopus

Scientific classification

FOS: Humanities > History and Archaeology

CORDIS: Natural sciences > Environmental science > Natural resources management ; Humanities > History

Other information

Abstract (EN): This paper sets out to analyze the fisheries sector in Portugal in the mediaeval and modern periods, using essentially fiscal indicators. There are three reasons for this approach: the legal concept of ownership of the seas and rivers that put the king in exclusive possession of them, under which system he received taxes resulting from their exploitation or alienation; the kind of historical papers that document this taxation, which took various forms; the need to reappraise the historiographic interpretation of the evolution of the Portuguese fisheries, patent in the illuminist discourse of the mid-18th century, which holds that the excessive fiscal burden on fishing and fishermen was the cause of an economic crisis in the sector

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific