Tipologie amministrative della signoria in Italia fra medioevo ed età moderna

Lordship management is a broad subject scarcely treated by historians; even when analysed, it has never been the object of exhaustive reconstructions and systematic surveys. The article provides first, provisional overview main forms lordship administration that changed depending on period, region, lordship, type revenue many other factors. Weberian notion ideal particularly helpful in order to try master multiplicity variety used practice. On its basis, essay identifies two basic types, ‘Direct Management’ ‘Indirect Management’, which are turn divided into five sub-ideal types. Lastly, questions economic social effects each form management, possibility identifying, period more or less extensive diffusion lordships attributable different