| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 112.1

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Book Review

Europe: Ancient and Medieval

Lydwine Scordia. "Le roi doit vivre du sien": La théorie de l'impôt en France (XIII^e-XV^e siècles). (Collection des Études Augustiniennes; Série Moyen Âge et Temps Modernes, number 40.) Paris: Institute des Études Augustiniennes, 2005. Pp. 539. €56.00.

In this book, Lydwine Scordia reflects on various theories concerning taxation and its legitimacy that circulated in France (and throughout Christendom) from the late thirteenth century to ca. 1500. Her title suggests that she will focus on the notion that the king should make do with the lands and income that he had and refrain from asking his subjects for more. In fact, she spreads her net far wider and in the end devotes just a short section to the adage, concentrating not on its first flourishing under Philip the Fair but rather on the reign of Charles V (pp. 411–421). Throughout Scordia privileges the ruminations of intellectuals over the justifications advanced by rulers who taxed and the protests of subjects who resisted paying. She discusses as well the canonical texts dear to schoolmen—the Bible, Aristotle, canon and civil law—considering not only the passages they cited but also others she deems relevant.

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