Changes in the Rural Milieu and Land Use on Estates in Southern Bohemia during the Sixteen Century

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Changes in the Rural Milieu and Land Use on Estates in Southern Bohemia during the Sixteen Century

Original language description

The period of the fifteenth century was associated in Czech historiography with the ‘Crisis of the Late Medieval Period’ and characterized by depopulation, abandonment, and economic decline, which is recorded in several land registers and archaeological evidence of deserted medieval villages. In the post-medieval period, significant changes in the rural milieu took place. A phenomenon of the sixteenth century was a decrease in the income from peasant tenancy rents, while the interest of landlords in the economic use of their estates was gradually strengthened. The lords in southern Bohemia established the structures of demesne lordship (Gutsherrschaft) that played an essential role in the agricultural revolution and economic boom of the sixteenth century. The main sectors of demesne lordship were beer production, fish farming, and manorial farms. In the sixteenth century, there was a peculiar symbiosis between the economic activities of the landlords and peasants, who participated in commercialized production for markets. The revenues of the manorial economy were invested in the reconstruction of manor houses, residences, and also in the self-representation of the aristocratic courts. Individual structures of demesne lordship shaped the formation of the early modern (Renaissance) landscape.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

C - Chapter in a specialist book

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60102 - Archaeology

Project

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Continuities

N - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z neverejnych zdroju

Publication year

2022

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Book/collection name

The Rural World in the Sixteenth Century, Exploring the Archaeology of Innovation in Europe

ISBN

978-2-503-59705-8

Number of pages of the result

30

Pages from-to

23-52

Number of pages of the book

224

Publisher name

Brepols Publishers

Place of publication

Turnhout, Begium

UT code for WoS chapter

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