Landesherrschaft, Territorien und Staat in der Frühen Neuzeit

Bahlcke, Joachim

doi:10.1524/9783486714111

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“…The period between 1200 and 1600 also saw an increase in the various perquisites of lordship, coupled with the growth of fiscal territorial lordships and states; the burdens these imposed on the rural population often had little connection to landholding, as lords' incomes from jurisdictional rights of various sorts, as well as tithes, increased significantly, as did the exactions of the states (Schulze ; Heimpel , 30–6; Rösener , 103–4, 107, 118–20, 126–7, 131, 146–7; Isenmann ; Blickle , 69–71, 126–8; Sreenivasan , 139–41; Scott , 59–67; Bahlcke ; North , 145–54). These payments almost always had to be in coin, and thus even if peasant rents remained mainly in grain and did not rise much, the need to raise cash for various non‐rent payments almost certainly grew.…”

Section: Diverging Forms Of Pre‐capitalist Market Dependence C1350–mentioning

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Rural Economies and Transitions to Capitalism:Germany andEngland Compared (c.1200–c.1800)

Ghosh

2015

Journal of Agrarian Change

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Based on a synthesis of the empirical scholarship on England and Germany, this paper demonstrates that in both regions, rural socio‐economic developments from c.1200 to c.1800 are similar: this period witnesses the rise to numerical predominance and growing economic significance of the ‘sub‐peasant classes’, which had a growing impact on the market as a result of their increasing market dependence, and from which – towards the end of the period – a rural proletariat emerged. Against the influential theory of Robert Brenner, it is argued that the period c.1200–c.1400 cannot really be categorized as ‘feudal’ according to Brenner's definition; and ‘agrarian capitalism’ does not adequately describe the socio‐economic system that obtained by the end of the sixteenth century. A genuine transition to capitalism is only evident from after c.1750, and can be found in Germany as well as in England; it is predicated both on ideological shifts and on the evolution of the rural proletariat, which is only found in large numbers by or after c.1800.

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