Landholding and Land Transfer in the North Sea Area (Late Middle Ages - 19th Century) English - Couverture souple

Van Bavel, Bas J.p.

 
9782503510972: Landholding and Land Transfer in the North Sea Area (Late Middle Ages - 19th Century) English
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 2503510973 ISBN 13 : 9782503510972
Editeur : Brepols N.V., 2004

Synopsis

For a better understanding of medieval and early modern rural society, in which land was the principal source of income and investment, as well as a most prestigious object of possession and a solid base of power, historical questions on landholding and land transfers are highly relevant. This volume aims to clarify some long-standing issues concerning the large variety of land tenure and non-familial transfers of land in the North Sea area by treating them from a regional - if possible comparative - perspective and by linking them to such structural features of preindustrial rural society as shifts in land to labour ratio's; social property relations; commercialisation and the rise of land, leasehold, and credit markets; the growth of state intervention and the institutional innovation that followed in its wake; the sustained prevalence of local or regional customary law; and the effects of social and cultural values on the demand for land. From viewing the later medieval and early modern period as a whole, one has to conclude that the mobility of agricultural land markedly increased. This was due first and foremost to the establishment of clear-cut private property rights, to the expansion of land and credit markets, and to the spread of short-term leasing. Differences in the pace of capitalist development as well as of state formation were mainly responsible for outspoken regional differences.

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À propos de l'auteur

Bas van Bavel is professor of economic and social history of the Middle Ages, head of the section of Economic and Social History, and coordinator of the knowledge centre Institutions of the Open Society at Utrecht University (the Netherlands). Erik Thoen is ordinary professor at Ghent University (Belgium) specialised in rural and environmental history. He is co-ordinator of the CORN history network (Comparative Rural History of the North Sea Area).

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Éditeur
Brepols N.V.
Date d'édition
2004
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
2503510973
ISBN 13 
9782503510972
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
292
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Personne responsable
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