| 1. |  € 65,00 | EAN-13: 9782503510972 P. Hoppenbrouwers
Landholding and Land Transfer in the North Sea Area (Late Middle Ages - 19th Century)
| Edizione: | Brepols Publishers, 2004 | | Collana: | Comparative Rural History of the North Sea Area |
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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 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.
Bas van Bavel is research leader in economic and social history
at the University of Utrecht.
Peter Hoppenbrouwers is
professor of medieval history at the University of
Amsterdam.
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