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
Idioma:
Inglês
Tipo (Avaliação Docente):
Científica