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SUMMARY:Paternalism and the politics of “toll corn” in early modern En
 gland - Hillary Taylor (Cambridge)
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CONTACT:Martin Andersson
DESCRIPTION:This paper examines controversies related to a neglected aspec
 t of early modern English grain marketing: toll corn. Such disputes and th
 e litigation that they occasioned provided opportunities for individuals o
 f various positions — including grain sellers — to reassert normative 
 ideals about the considerations that should take precedence in the market:
  specifically\, the belief that the needs of the poor should outweigh the 
 interests of private individuals (or corporate entities)\, and that author
 ities had a paternalistic duty to ensure that the poor’s needs were met.
  That these points were articulated in toll corn disputes throughout the p
 eriod ­indicates their continued hold in some quarters\, even after they 
 had ceased to be reflected in ‘official’ policies regarding grain prov
 ision and marketing. However\, controversies about toll corn also demonstr
 ated the extent to which such thinking could ring hollow in practice. Indi
 vidual authorities’ willingness to fulfil the material component of thei
 r duty to their inferiors was not accompanied by a mandate that they do so
  kindly. The politics of toll corn — like contemporary ideologies and pr
 actices of paternalism — both enabled and circumscribed the labouring po
 pulation’s ability to shape the terms of their subordination in early mo
 dern England.
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