Commercer sur la frontière de 1258. Norme et pratique des échanges entre le Roussillon et le Fenouillèdes (fin du XIIIe-milieu du XVe siècle)

The border established in 1258 between the kingdom of France and the Catalan-Aragonese crown did not hinder the ancient economic exchanges between the two border “countries” : Fenouillèdes and the county of Roussillon. By crossing notarial and normative sources, exclusively from Roussillon, this article focuses on the trade practiced between these two regions from the end of the thirteenth to the middle of the fifteenth century, both from the point of view of the norms and practices of this activity, as well as the identity of its actors. It begins by presenting the economic policies imposed by the kings of Majorca and Aragon, as well as the specific legal clauses of the contracts concluded between the inhabitants of both sides of the border. It then reveals the course and the modalities of the commercialization of the five characteristic goods of the cross-border trade (wool, wood, iron, animals and cereals). Finally, following a social approach of the economy, it presents the actors of the cross-border trade, their origins, their identity and their activities. The border is thus considered as a dynamic space with its own characteristics and as a territory shaped less by central powers than by those who lived on the border and those individuals who crossed it

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