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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

Who reads Landholding and Land Transfer in the North Sea Area (Late Middle Ages - 19th Century) (Corn Publication Series)?

Author

Bas J. P. van Bavel; P. C. M Hoppenbrouwers

Publisher

Brepols Publishers; Brepols

Published

2004

Language

EN

ISBN

9782503510972

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Management, History, Western