The Economic and Social Foundations of European Civilization

Alfons Dopsch

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2013
• eBook ISBN: 9781135032371
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Business General
• Index: Business

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Index

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Aachen, Reform of, 328

Abruzzi, 97

Aetius, 104

Aethelbert, laws of, 363

Africa, coloni in, 135 f. ; grazing districts in, 136 ; products of, 161 ; Romano-German states in, 53 ; the saltus in, 134 ; Theodosius on, 348

Agahd, E., on continuity of settlement, 125

Agathias, on the “ barbarian ”, 89 f. ; on the Franks, 91, 113, 178, 305, 350; on trading laws, 360

Agilolfings, the, Domain-land of, 63 f. ; graves of, 81 ; land-grants of, 126; position of, 205

Agriculture, antiquity of, 32 ; communal cultivation, 40 ; contrast between Roman and German, 38 ; early rôle of women in, 45 ; extension of and land tenure, 235 ; farming technique of Romans and Germans, 161 f. ; field-boundaries and measurements, 139 ff. ; field-grass systems, 38, 43, 162; the German producer, 340 ; German system and growth of great estates, 46, 104 ; isolated homestead and village settlement, 99, 123 f. ; land-laws of the Visigoths, 98 f. ; Lombard associations for farming purposes, 96 ; Mark-association theory, see Mark ; marketing of produce, 373; pasture and sheep-farming, 331 ; private property and co-aration, 39 ; Roman system of, 134 ; Salzburg cycle of the months, 163 f. ; strip system of scattered holdings, 40 f. ; 138 f. ; rotation of arable fields, 36, 43 ; small-holdings on colonate system, 53 ; the Suevic form of, 34 ; Tacitus on Frisian, 130 ; the three-field system, 162 f.

Agrippa, 50

Aistulf, King, laws of, 215 f., 342.

Alaric II, coinage of, 361 ; law-making activities of, 361

Alemanni, the, Ammianus Marcellinus on, 55, 71, 88, 348 ; class distinctions among, 204, 215; ecclesiastical coloni among, 235; continuity of civilization by, 68 f. ; early settlements of, 54 f., 75, 78 f., 106, 108, 114; first attack of, 52 ; Hufe system among, 145 ; as horsemen, 284 ; imperial domains appropriated by, 56; laws of, 114 ff., 117, 158, 193, 274, 336, 356 ; manorial developments among, 115; monarchical development among, 174, 186 ; trade of, 348 f.

Alfred, King, laws of, 323

Allthing, the, 172, 195

Almsgiving, 248 f., 261 f.

Alod, the, 281; among the Alemanni, 115 f ; among the Anglo-warni, 122, 158; Guizot on, 9

Alps, the, early seigneurial land-ownership in, 119; the mark in, 148; Roman settlement in, 61 f. ; Slav colonization in, 48 ; trade routes of, 347, 349

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Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Introduction to the 1969 Edition
• Introduction to the English Edition
• Key to Abbreviations Used in the Footnotes
• I. The Influence of Contemporary Movements on Historical Research
• II. The So-Called “Earliest” Period (Cæsar and Tacitus)
• III. Romans and Germans in the Age of the Migrations
• IV. The Occupation of the Land by the Germans in the Fifth and Sixth Centuries
• V. The Division of the Soil and Agrarian Economy in the Late Roman and Early Medieval Periods
• VI. Political Structure
• VII. The Reorganization of Society
• VIII. The Church
• IX. The Rise of Feudalism
• X. The Development of Town Life
• XI. Industry and Trade
• XII. Currency and Money Economy
• XIII. Retrospect and Conclusion
• Index