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"Two Medieval Toll Registers from Tarascon presents an edition, translation, and discussion of two vernacular toll registers from fourteenth and fifteenth-century Provence. These two registers are a valuable new source for the economic, linguistic, and transportation history of medieval France, offering a window onto the commercial life of Tarascon, a fortified town on the east bank of the Rhône between Avignon and Arles. William D. Paden discusses the developing fiscal policy of the counts of Provence, for whom the tolls were collected, and the practice and vocabulary of medieval toll-keeping. An afterword considers the toll registers in relation to the poetry of troubadours, arguing that the realism of the registers and the idealism of troubadour poetry overlapped in the world of medieval Tarascon. "--

"A critical anthology of indigenous-authored texts, including Nahua, Quechua, and Spanish which native peoples and Spaniards convey their perspectives on Spanish colonial order. The first volume with native testimonies of Spanish expansion and examines geographically and culturally realities of indigenous elites in the colonial period"--Provided by publisher

The Berlinka Collection / Monika Jaglarz -- Manuscripta Americana and the Provenance of Mss. Amer. 3, 8, and 10 / Monika Jaglarz and Julia Madajczak -- Mss. Amer. 3, 8, and 10 in Relation to the Marquesado Census Corpus / Julia Madajczak -- Mss. Amer. 3, 8, and 10: The Scribes / Szymon Gruda -- The Creation and History of the Tepoztlan Census / Julia Madajczak, Szymon Gruda and Monika Jaglarz -- The Jagiellonian Library Census Fragments in Numbers / José Luis de Rojas -- Family Relations in Tepoztlan / Katarzyna Granicka -- Administrative Structure and Social Groups in Tepoztlan / Julia Madajczak -- Land and Tribute in the Jagiellonian Library Census Fragments / José Luis de Rojas -- Glossary of Nahuatl Terms / Julia Madajczak and José Luis de Rojas -- Conventions for the Transcription of the Jagiellonian Library Census Fragments / Julia Madajczak and José Luis de Rojas -- Transcription and Translation / Julia Madajczak and José Luis de Rojas.