| Session 86-- | Emergence and early development of lease holding in the European countryside during the Middle Ages |
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Title: Emergence and early development of lease holding in the European countryside during the Middle Ages Organizers:
Erik Thoen (Belgium) and Bas van Bavel (The Netherlands)
Description of
the session: Leasehold has often been viewed as a uniquely commercial,
market orientated form of land tenure, as it is based on contractual arrangements
rather than custom or direct use. Its development in the medieval era has
therefore been seen as a significant indication of increased commercialism
and market orientation within the rural economy. The shift from direct exploitation
and customary tenant holding to leaseholding is a process that occurred
with important regional differences across Europe. The chronology of this
evolution as well as the forms in which leases developed differed greatly.
It is important to look at the type of farm land affected - whether it was
large or small farms which were leased out earliest or most often, or whether
leasehold was largely confined to land newly reclaimed from fen, sea or
forest. The type of lease which dominated in a region - whether they were
temporary short term leases, long term or life leases, or indeed sharecropping
leases - had very different implications for paths of economic development.
Even within the same ‘type’ of leaseholding, the exact conditions of leases
varied and could have significant implications for the relationship between
landlord and tenant. This session aims to describe and explain the evolution
of different types of leasehold in Europe concentrating on the XIIth to
the XVIth centuries. It questions what impact new forms of tenure had on
economic development, in particular the development of more commercial methods
of farming. Rather than simply documenting the emergence of new types of
tenure, the aim is to set these changes in their full economic, social and
political context, and to question their significance. Preference will be
given to papers that try to place their results in a broad regional and
comparative context.
List of participants:
Organizers:
Bas Van Bavel,
Department of History, Utrecht University, Kromme Nieuwegracht 66, 3512HL,
Netherlands; e-mail: bas.vanbavel@let.uu.nl; tel: +31-30-2536474. Jane Whittle,
History Department, University of Exeter, Amory Building, Rennes Drive,
Exeter EX4 4RJ UK; e-mail: J.C.Whittle@exeter.ac.uk; fax: +44-13922633305.
Other participants: Christer Lundh
& Mats Olsson, Department of Economic History, Lund University, Sweden;
e-mail: christer.lundh@ekh.lu.se and mats.olsson@ekh.lu.se. Miriam Müller;
Department of Medieval History; University of Birmingham; Edgbaston; Birmingham,
UK; B15 2TT Phillipp Schofield,
University of Aberystwyth/Wales, UK; prs@aber.ac.uk Karl-Heinz Spiess,
Historisches Institut, Ernst Moritz Arndt-Universität Greifswald,
BRD; e-mail: spiess@mail.uni-greifswald.de; tel: +??-3834-863302. |
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