German agrarian institutions at the beginning of the sixteenth century

Upper Swabia as an example

Bibliographic Data

ID2158447
AuthorsDavid Warren Sabean (0000-0003-0288-0323, University of Pittsburgh, corresponding author), David Sabean
Year1975
Volume3
Issue1
Pages76-88
Publication date1975-10-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Journal of Peasant Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0306-6150 • E-ISSN: 1743-9361
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/03066157508437968
OpenAlexW2098986751
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited14

This paper deals with three dynamic factors leading to rural social change in the years before 1525. The rise of population changed man/land ratios, brought alterations in inheritance customs, and helped create a class of landless agricultural labourers. Alterations in the nature of market relationships changed the balance between city and country and introduced new wage relationships in the countryside with the putting out system. Increasing articulation of state institutions led to attempts to rationalise armed force, brought taxation to pay for larger and more complex armies, and changed the relationships between central authority and subjects. The effects of these changes should be investigated regionally before generalisations about all of Central Europe are made, and the paper shows how one such regional study might be done

Agrarian society · Agriculture · Articulation (sociology · Balance (ability · Development economics · Economic history · Economics · Economy · Geography · German · Inheritance (genetic algorithm · Market economy · Political economy · Political science · Rural area · State (computer science · Wage · Law · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity

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