Resumen de Al diavolo la tassa!: un episodio interpolato della "Vita S. Aedwardi" regis et confessoris di Aelredo di Rievaulx
Only part of the manuscript tradition of Aelred of Rievaulx's Vita sancti Aedwardi regis et confessoris contains an episode concerning the abolition of a tax known as danegeld. According to the account Edward reintroduced this tax, once paid to prevent Danish invasions, only at the suggestion of his counsellors and then decided to abolish it definitively after seeing the devil in the shape of a monkey on the pile of money collected. In this paper the story is analyzed in order to demonstrate that it is an episode interpolated into the Vita before the end of the 12th century. The study is followed by a critical edition of the Latin text.
