Land, Liberties, and Lordship in a Late Medieval Countryside : : Agrarian Structures and Change in the Duchy of Wroclaw / / Richard C. Hoffmann.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Press Package Archive 1898-1999
• VerfasserIn: Hoffmann, Richard C.,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2017]; ©1990
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Edition: Reprint 2016
• Language: English
• Series: The Middle Ages Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (582 p.) :; 41 illus.

Richard C. Hoffman's monumental study of rural life in medieval eastern Europe focuses on one region, the Duchy of Wroclaw, from the twelfth to sixteenth centuries. The duchy is in many ways a microcosm of medieval European society, and thus Hoffman's analysis addresses issues central to a broader understanding of a vanished society. His analysis of the records of the Duchy of Wroclaw challenges the western stereotypes of east central Europe that have been imposed on its medieval past by modern nationalisms. Honorable Mention, Wallace K. Ferguson Prize of the Canadian Historical Association.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- MAPS -- TABLES -- FIGURES -- ABBREVIATIONS -- PREFACE -- I. Contexts for a Rural History -- 1. Introduction: Approaching Agrarian History in Medieval East-Central Europe -- 2. Environments: The Duchy of Wrocław as Region and Polity -- 3. The Changing Polish Countryside of the High Middle Ages -- II. Organizing Agricultural Resources -- 4. Locare iure Theutonico: Instrument and Structure for a New Institutional Order -- 5. Demesne Farming in the Age of German Law -- 6. Demesne, Tenancy, and Agricultural Conditions in a Long Fourteenth Century, ca. 1300-ca. 1425 -- III. A Social System in Action -- 7. The Landed Elite: Landlord Rights in Social Contexts -- 8. The Lord and the Lordship: What Did a Landlord Do? -- 9. Villagers in and Beyond Their Communities -- IV. The Erosion of a Socio-Economic Order -- 10. The Storm, ca.1425-ca. 1480 -- 11. Aftermath: Ambiguous Reconstruction -- 12. Straws in a Chilling Wind -- 13. Retrospect: Rural Lives Around Late Medieval Wrocław -- Appendices -- A. Materials and Methods for Measuring Long-Term Change in Lordship and Farm Management -- В. Notes on Money in Medieval Silesia -- С. On the Names of Places and People -- Notes to Text -- Notes to Maps and Figures -- Glossary -- Pronunciation Guide -- Bibliography -- Gazetteer and Concordance of Topographic Names -- Index -- Backmatter