Landholding and land transfer in the North Sea area (late Middle Ages-19th century) / edited by Bas J.P. van Bavel & Peter Hoppenbrouwers.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bavel, B. J. P. van, 1964-

Hoppenbrouwers, Peter

Elsie de Renzo Orlando Fund.

Series:

CORN publication series ; 5.

CORN publication series ; 5

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Land tenure--North Sea Region--History.

Land tenure.

Land tenure--Europe, Western--History.

Land titles--Registration and transfer--North Sea Region--History.

Land titles.

Land titles--Registration and transfer--Europe, Western--History.

Land titles--Registration and transfer.

History.

Western Europe.

Physical Description:

292 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Other Title:

Landholding and land transfer

Place of Publication:

Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols, [2004]

Contents:

1 Landholding and land transfer in the North Sea area (late Middle Ages-19th century) / Bas J.P. Van Bavel, Peter Hoppenbrouwers 13

Part I Belgium and North France

2 'Social agrosystems' as an economic concept to explain regional differences. An essay taking the former county of Flanders as an example (Middle Ages-19th century) / Erik Thoen 47

3 Ricardo in Flanders. Landlords and tenants in Flemish agriculture in the 18th and 19th centuries / Eric Vanhaute 67

4 Land markets in the Parisian Basin (17th-19th centuries). Changes over time and variation in space / Gerard Beaur 86

5 An abbot's most worldly concerns. Transfers of land and the land market in the notebook of William of Ryckel (c. 1250-c. 1270) / Peter Hoppenbrouwers 101

Part II The Netherlands, Northwest Germany and Denmark

6 Structures of landownership, mobility of land and farm sizes. Diverging developments in the northern part of the Low Countries, c. 1300-c. 1650 / Bas J.P. Van Bavel 131

7 Yeomen and farmers in the Wadden Sea coastal marshes, c. 1500-c. 1900 / Otto S. Knottnerus 149

8 Landownership, farming and peasants in Denmark in the Middle Ages / Nils Hybel 187

9 Rural credit and land market in the Duchy of Schleswig c. 1450-1660 / Bjorn Poulsen 203

10 Farms and land - a commodity? Land markets, family strategies and manorial control in Germany (18th-19th centuries) / Stefan Brakensiek 218

Part III England

11 Tenure and landholding in England 1440-1580. A crucial period for the development of agrarian capitalism? / Jane Whittle 237

12 Redefining copyhold in the 16th century. The case of timber rights / Richard W. Hoyle 250

13 Access to land by labourers and tradesmen in 18th-century England / Leigh Shaw-Taylor 265

14 Freehold from copyhold and leasehold. Tenurial transition in England between the 16th and 19th centuries / John V. Beckett, Michael E. Turner 282.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Elsie de Renzo Orlando Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Landholding and land transfer in the North Sea area (late Middle Ages-19th century)

ISBN:

2503510973

9782503510972

OCLC:

57403099