Voor vorst voor vrijheid en voor recht: een comparatieve analyse van het stedelijke fiscale en financiële beleid in de zeventiende eeuw Universiteit Gent
From the middle ages onwards, cities were encapsulated in the financing of the (nascent) state. In order to meet the royal need for cash, cities resorted to selling rents. These practices are well studied within historiography. However, how the financing of the state and the corresponding mounting debt levels transformed the urban fiscal system remained much less studied. In this article, we set out to disentangle the relationship between the ...