Farmers' Trade and Markets : Social and Economic Interaction in the Medieval and Early Modern European Countryside.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ødegaard, Marie.

Series:

Ruralia Series

Ruralia Series ; v.XV

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (378 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden : Sidestone Press, 2025.

Summary:

This volume brings together a series of case studies on the social and economic interaction and organisation in the medieval and early modern European countryside. In particular, it focuses on rural and smaller trade and markets that have remained relatively underexposed so far. It provides comprehensive presentations of new research on rural socio-economic interactions and networks, and how these are integrated into regional, trans-regional and even global exchange systems. The volume is characterised by an interdisciplinary scope and a broad geographical range, and provides new insights into the diversities and complexities of trade and rural landscape organisation. The exchange of goods and services were integrated in cultural patterns and social strategies, which were part of the mechanisms of regionalisation and the formation of common cultures and identities. Markets and trading places were also important in terms of noneconomic aspects of society, with different types of social ties and networks, all essential components for dissemination of innovation and ideas. The volume investigates who benefitted, and who controlled the trade. The more or less unresolved question of how we can identify these smaller and informal trading places is a central topic of discussion in this volume.Presented research suggests a considerably higher complexity in social and economic organisations and networks in rural areas than has previously been assumed. Both on local and regional as well as temporal scales. Local and regional differences in organisation and trade networks can highlight different modes of social organisation. Recognising how rural trade and markets were organised, and why, is fundamental for an understanding of the complexities of societies and regional variations in Europe as a whole.

Contents:

Intro

Forword and introduction

Marie Ødegaard, Kjetil Loftsgarden and Claudia Theune

Keynote

Meeting in the Dutch lowlands. The search for medieval and post-medieval open-air assembly sites in a north-west European context

Jan van Doesburg &amp

Bert Groenewoudt

Section One - The search for medieval and post-medieval open-air assembly sites in a north-west European context

Where are all the marketplaces? Southern Finland as an example of medieval and early modern rural trade in Finland

Tuuli Heinonen

Fairs and trade in the late medieval and early modern Danish countryside

Mette Svart Kristiansen

Local rural markets in pre­industrial Southern Germany

Rainer Schreg

Rural markets in medieval and early modern Hungary. A spatial-quantitative study

Laszlo Ferenczi

Medieval and Ottoman marketplaces in the Raška basin

Uglješa Vojvodić

Section Two - Markets in small towns in central Europe

How much do we know about medieval rural markets in Silesia (Poland)?

Paweł Duma

Market exchange and rural communities in the medieval Czech lands (ca. 900-1400)

Tomáš Klír &amp

Ivo Štefan

Marketplaces in small towns, the case study of Langenlois, Lower Austria

Claudia Theune* &amp

Ute Scholz**

Lower Austrian market towns from a bird's-eye view at around 1700

Ronald Kurt Salzer*

Section Three - Production and markets at the periphery of Europe - examples from Scotland and Northen Isles

From seasonal shore market to town. The emergence of Lerwick in Shetland (Scotland) in the 17th century

Mark Gardiner

Trade and markets in early modern Orkney (Scotland)

Sarah Jane Gibbon, Jocelyn Rendall, Anne Mitchell &amp

Jennifer Harland

Produce from the isles. The production and export of later medieval and early modern foodstuffs in Orkney and Shetland.

Jennifer Harland, Bart Holterman, Ingrid Mainland &amp

Julia Cussans

Section Four - Approaches to the identification of markets and trade

The development and cultural significance of informal rural trade in the coastal and fjord districts of western Norway

Therese Nesset

Seascapes of connectivity. Magnates' farms and trade in the Oslo Fjord region

Christian Løchsen Rødsrud

Mountain markets in medieval Norway. Rural trade and its socioeconomic significance

Kjetil Loftsgarden &amp

Marie Ødegaard

Medieval quarrying and rural stone building trade in Hamar diocese, Norway

Kristian Reinfjord

The birth of business. Risk management and social relations among farmers in Jämtland and traders in Trondheim 1800−1850

Sven Olofsson

Silver from Sala silver mine. Controlled trade or shadow market?

Lena Berg Nilsson

'This little potter went to market'. The use of ceramic evidence to study the socioeconomic landscapes of rural markets in medieval Yorkshire (England)

Yannick Signer

Rural marketplaces and fairs in medieval Luxembourg. The examples of Enelter and the Helperknapp

Christiane Bis-Worch &amp

André Schoellen

Tyrolean garnet. From rural mining in the high mountains to the European gemstone markets

Bianca Zerobin &amp

Roland Köchl

Novel notes. Examples of commodity money and fiat money in the Viking Age of Eastern Europe

Monika Maleszka-Ritchie*

The village markets of early medieval/Byzantine Cyprus and Greece

Athanasios K. Vionis*

Section Five - Transport and trade - connecting producers and markets

Following the herd. Oxen trade and breeding in the Netherlands as an example of rural-urban synergy in the late medieval and early modern periods

Jaap Evert Abrahamse &amp

Rowin van Lanen.

Livestock trails and cattle fairs in the north-west of the Iberian Peninsula in medieval and post-medieval times

Margarita Fernández Mier, Pablo López Gómez &amp

Elías Carballido Gonzaléz

Forgotten trade, forgotten villages. A case study of medieval trade routes and settlement abandonment in Fejér county, Hungary

Máté Stibrányi &amp

Csilla Zatykó

The rural area around Old Buda

Adrienn Papp.

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ISBN:

94-6427-134-5