Containment of costs

Up to this point, we have concentrated on the forces – military, economic and ‘conict’-based – that affected the distribution, redistribution and management of military costs. Another important dimension in the development of local management of state military structures were the practices adopted by the communities and the Corpi Territoriali to avoid costs or make them less traumatic for local economies and societies. The state also intervened, especially in the seventeenth century, to reduce the impact of military burdens and redistribute them more equitably.