Busy Tenants
Peasant Land Markets in Central Europe (15th to 16th Century)
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Busy Tenants
Peasant Land Markets in Central Europe (15th to 16th Century)
About this book
Pre-modern commercialisation and a long-term decrease in transaction costs are not only mirrored in the expansion of goods markets but notably in the development of factor markets. Medieval markets for rural land and credit have been addressed systematically with a focus on Western Europe, but to a far lesser extent for Central European regions. The contributions in this volume examine tenure and circulation of rural properties in Central Europe with a focus on the 15th and 16th centuries, combining an in-depth analysis of selected case studies north and south of the Alps and a discussion within the broader picture of the research on pre-modern land markets. The comparison between four Austrian, one Czech, one South-Tyrolian and one Italian case study aims to determine the elements which prove relevant, decisive, or obstructive to the tenant's agency and the development of flexible land markets. The case studies address different methodological issues and specific regional features and in summary, reveal active rural land markets in Central Europe in the 15th and 16th centuries. The mobility of rural properties thrived in an institutional framework that in economic history research has mostly been associated with stability and a lack of dynamism.
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Table of contents
- Table of Contents
- (Thomas Ertl / Thomas Frank / Samuel Nussbaum) Introduction
- (Johannes Kaska) The Influence of Institutional Factors on Land Transactions. An Analysis of the Practice of Partible Inheritance and Tenancy in Common in the Lambach Estate in Late Medieval Austria
- (Samuel Nussbaum) Counting Land Transactions. The Perils and Gains of Quantitative Approaches to Late Medieval Land Markets, Tested on Wine-Growing Villages Near Vienna, 1454–1513
- (Birgit Heinzle) Transactions Intertwined. Land Transfer Among Tenants in the Aflenz and Veitsch Estate (Upper Styria), 1494–1550
- (Thomas Ertl) Vienna’s Wine. Urban Vineyard Possessions Around 1400 AD
- (Thomas Frank) The Tenants of the Hospital Santa Maria dei Battuti, Treviso, in the 15th and Early 16th Century
- (Tomáš KlÃr) Land Transfer in a Late Medieval City State. Cheb Region 1438–1456
- (Janine Maegraith) Selling, Buying and Exchanging Peasant Land in Early Modern Southern Tyrol
- (Emmanuel Huertas) Des sociétés en mouvement. Les marchés de la terre en Europe centrale (XVe –XVIe siècle)