Property Rights and Contract Form in Medieval Europe

Volokh, Alexander

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“…Despite this background, Galicia continued to be economically relevant in the Late Middle Ages, thanks not only to its dense population, but also to its geographical position as a stopover point on the maritime trade routes between the Atlantic and the Mediterranean [17]. The manor was the basic unit of agrarian organization in the Middle Ages; it consisted of an agricultural estate, large or small, over which lordship was exercised by a layman, the Crown, or an ecclesiastical institution [18,19]. Manors were usually managed by members of the client networks of the lord's house or institution, linked to it by a feudal or vassal bond [20].…”

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The Town as Agrarian Dissipative Structure: Cash Crops in the Medieval Kingdom of Galicia

Teira-Brión¹,

Doce²,

Lorenzo³

et al. 2022

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Towns emerged as dynamic economic and political centers during the Middle Ages, giving rise to the emergence of new social classes. As a result of these functions, a new relationship began to be forged with the rural world, which supplied towns with foodstuffs that satisfied new social demands. Archaeobotanical analysis (carpology) allows us to understand the flow of cash crops by tracing seeds and fruits produced in the countryside that were consumed in and redistributed from the towns. The study of waterlogged contexts from medieval archaeological sites in the Kingdom of Galicia (Santiago de Compostela, Padrón, and Pontevedra) has provided a set of species that played a crucial role in the economy of the urban dwellers and that possibly were related to differential access or food preferences. Evidence for fruits (grapes, chestnuts, figs, apples, and cherries, among others), garden crops (melon), and cereals (foxtail millet, rye, naked wheat, and oat) has been documented. Broomcorn millet is particularly abundant, demonstrating that it was important for subsistence. Some of the species found (medlar, turnip/grelo, and spinach) are novel in the archaeobotanical literature of the medieval period in the Iberian Peninsula.

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The Town as Agrarian Dissipative Structure: Cash Crops in the Medieval Kingdom of Galicia

Teira-Brión¹,

Doce²,

Lorenzo³

et al. 2022

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“…The burden supported by peasants varied between 1 2 and 1 3 , depending on land fertility. Duby (1962) and Volokh (2009) find that share-cropping was more common in continental Europe while leasing was preferred in England. state capacity.…”

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In the Name of the Father: Inheritance Systems and the Dynamics of State Capacity

Fernández

2019

Macroecon. Dynam.

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This paper examines how the degree of gender-egalitarianism embedded in inheritance rules impacts state capacity at its early stages during medieval times. We present a theoretical model in which building state capacity enables nobles to raise taxes and overcome rivals. The model addresses the use of inheritance to consolidate landholding dynasties, also accommodating interstate marriages between landed heirs. On the one hand, dynastic continuity—of utmost importance to medieval lords—directly encourages state-building. Male-biased inheritance rules historically maximize the likelihood of dynastic continuity. We weigh this effect against the indirect impact of the more frequent land-merging marriages under gender-egalitarian rules. Contrary to the literature, our results suggest that gender-egalitarian norms—offering a low probability of dynastic continuity—promote state capacity in the short run more than gender-biased norms. In the long run, results are reversed, providing a rationale for the pervasive European tradition of preference for men as heirs.

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The city as dissipative structure: The flow of agricultural production in the medieval Kingdom of Galicia

Teira-Brión

Doce²,

Lorenzo³

et al. 2023

Journal of Anthropological Archaeology

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Property Rights and Contract Form in Medieval Europe

Cited by 3 publications

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The Town as Agrarian Dissipative Structure: Cash Crops in the Medieval Kingdom of Galicia

The Town as Agrarian Dissipative Structure: Cash Crops in the Medieval Kingdom of Galicia

In the Name of the Father: Inheritance Systems and the Dynamics of State Capacity

The city as dissipative structure: The flow of agricultural production in the medieval Kingdom of Galicia

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