Journal title SOCIETÀ E STORIA
Author/s Paolo Nanni
Publishing Year 2026 Issue 2026/193
Language Italian Pages 40 P. 407-446 File size 194 KB
DOI 10.3280/SS2026-193001
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Food supply and food security constitute a central element in the social history of medieval cities. The food market, annona policies, and access to food as an indicator of living standards have been examined by a broad historiography within the wider context of famine and the social and economic inequalities of late medieval Europe. More recently, scholarship has sought to identify forms of direct access to food outside the market and sheltered from price volatility. In this context, the case of Florence provides a significant testing ground, since despite pronounced inequalities in wealth, landownership involved broad segments of Florentine society. Drawing on the Florentine Catasto of 1427, an investigation of selected occupational groups in artisanal production and dispersed manufacturing (shoemakers, blacksmiths, dyers, and cloth finishers) has made it possible to assess the diffusion of landownership and to measure nonmarket forms of food supply in relation to household needs.
Keywords: food provisioning, food security, landownership, sharecropping, social inequalities, cadastral records.
Paolo Nanni, Il pane e il vino “da famiglia”. L’approvvigionamento diretto di calzaioli, fabbri, tintori e cimatori nella Firenze del 1427 in "SOCIETÀ E STORIA " 193/2026, pp 407-446, DOI: 10.3280/SS2026-193001