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"Prompted by the 'linguistic turn' of the late 20th century, intellectual and conceptual historians continue to devote a great deal of attention to the study of concepts in history. This innovative and interdisciplinary volume builds on such scholarship by providing a new history of the term 'economy'. Starting from the Greek idea of the law of the household, Luigi Alonzi traces the different meanings assumed by the word 'economy' during the middle ages and early modern era, highlighting the semantic richness of the word and its uses in various political and cultural contexts. Notably, there is a particular focus on the so-called Oeconomica literature , tracking the reception of works by Plato, Aristotle, the 'pseudo' Aristotle and Xenophon in the Italian and France Renaissance. This tradition was incredibly influential in civic humanism and in texts devoted to power and command and thus affected later debates on Natural Law and the development of new scientific disciplines in the 17th and 18th centuries. In exploring this, the analysis of the function of translations in the transmission and transformation of meanings becomes central. 'Economy' in European History shines much-needed light on an important challenge that many historians repeatedly face: the fact that words can, and do, change over time. It will thus be a vital resource for all scholars of early modern and European economic history."--

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface: Words and concepts in history -- Part I Oeconomica: From ancient times to the Middle Ages and Renaissance -- 1 The classical discourse of the Oeconomica -- 2 The Oeconomica from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance -- Part II Household management and power to command -- 3 Oeconomy and politics in Italy -- 4 Oeconomy and politics in France -- Part III Lexicography of Oeconomia and discourses upon the Scientia Oeconomica -- 5 Oeconomia: Dictionaries and encyclopaedias -- 6 Scientia Oeconomica and natural law -- Part IV Semantic of economy: Order and administration -- 7 The adjective oeconomic: Economic prudence, economic order, economic commerce -- 8 The noun oeconomy: Economy of religion, economy of nature, animal economy -- Part V The renaissance of the term 'political economy' -- 9 Commerce, finance and the origins of political oeconomy -- 10 The new life of the term 'political oeconomy' -- Notes -- Preface: Words and concepts in history -- 1 The classical discourse of the Oeconomica -- 2 The Oeconomica from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance -- 3 Oeconomy and politics in Italy -- 4 Oeconomy and politics in France -- 5 Oeconomia: Dictionaries and encyclopaedias -- 6 Scientia Oeconomica and natural law -- 7 The adjective oeconomic: Economic prudence, economic order, economic commerce -- 8 The noun oeconomy: Economy of religion, economy of nature, animal economy -- 9 Commerce, finance and the origins of political oeconomy -- 10 The new life of the term 'political oeconomy' -- Bibliography -- Name index.

Attraverso la riconsiderazione di due proposte interpretative avanzate da Anna Maria Rao e da Giuseppe Giarrizzo (con Francesco Renda), l'articolo prende in esame la questione relativa alla trasformazione dei feudi in allodi e intende mettere in luce la problematicità di una lettura unitaria della questione feudale nei regni di Napoli e di Sicilia. Come si cerca di evidenziare, la concezione del feudo elaborata dalla storiografia economico-giuridica napoletana nella seconda metà dell'Ottocento approdò a risultati diametralmente opposti rispetto alla "teoria dei commilitoni" fatta propria da buona parte del baronaggio siciliano nella seconda metà del Settecento, pur concordando paradossalmente nell'idea di una trasformazione dei feudi in allodi avvenuta fra Medioevo ed età moderna; dietro queste idiosincrasie vi era lo scontro fra baronaggio siciliano e Corte borbonica, nel corso del quale ebbero modo di emergere sistemi istituzionali e concezioni politiche fondamentalmente differenti, che portarono ad una riconfigurazione storiografica contrastata delle vicende dei due regni. ; Considering the two historiographical interpretations given by Anna Maria Rao and Giuseppe Giarrizzo (with Francesco Renda), the article examine the question on the transformation from the fiefs in allodial lands and intends to highlight the difficulty of a unitary interpretation of the feudal matter in the Kingdoms of Naples and Sicily. The conception of the fief, developed by the Neapolitan economic and legal historians in the second half of the Nineteenth century, was completely different from the "theory of fellow soldiers" endorsed by the Sicilian barons in the second half of the Eighteenth century, although they paradoxically agreed with the transformation of the fiefs in allodial lands occurred between the Middle Ages and the Early Modern age. Behind these problems there was the conflict between the Sicilian barons and the Bourbon court; and, at that time different institutional systems and political conceptions emerged, leading to contrasting narratives on the history of the two Kingdoms of Naples and Sicily.