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Városlakó földbirtokosok a középkori Poroszországban

Pósán, László (2015) Városlakó földbirtokosok a középkori Poroszországban. Századok. pp. 507-522.

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Abstract

Alongside trade, crafts and other activities connected to the provision of goods, the burghers of medieval towns also engaged in agrarian production. As other members of the Hanseatic league, the more important towns of the Teutonic Order owned wide stretches of land. Most of these were owned by the burghers themselves, and frequently served as pledges in credit affairs. Alongside the estates owned as private property, some of the urban lands were retained as undivided communal property, and were administered by the urban magistrature. Smaller parcels of them were liable for lease by the burghers, and the revenues thus collected flowed into the public coffers. The more well-off burghers, on the other hand, could also lease privately owned lands, The growing demand for land was connected to the equally incresing importance that brewing played in the economic life of the Prussian towns, and the need for barley and malt it generated. Rich families tried to obtain lands in areas which lay beyond the jurisdiction of their own town. This was most frequently done via purchase, but another method was also available as settler-entrepreneurs. Some among the rich patrician families came to own whole manors and even entire villages. In the last third of the 15th centuiy the social elite of the Vistula region was no more constituted by the provincial military caste, but by the landowning urban patriciate. By obtaining a considerable amount of landed wealth, the well-to-do urban families became integrated into the provincial landowning society. The pieces of land acquired outside the jurisdictional area of the town were liable to burdens to be discharged according to the legal status of the land concerned. Thus, a patrician could own lands o f peasant sta­ tus and consequently burdened by census and other inferior services, such as seruitium, for instance. Other estates, on the other hand, owned armed military service and were connected to other noble privileges.

Item Type: Article
Subjects: D History General and Old World / történelem > D3 Mediaeval History / középkor története
Depositing User: Dr Attila Pál Bárány
Date Deposited: 13 Aug 2017 14:53
Last Modified: 13 Aug 2017 14:53
URI: http://real.mtak.hu/id/eprint/58892

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