The Image of Peasants in Serf Lists: South Bohemia in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://journals.umcs.pl/rh/article/view/18455/12929" target="_blank" >https://journals.umcs.pl/rh/article/view/18455/12929</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.17951/rh.2025.60.367-394" target="_blank" >10.17951/rh.2025.60.367-394</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

The Image of Peasants in Serf Lists: South Bohemia in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

Original language description

Serf lists are a unique Bohemian archival source, which was originally created by the manorial administration for the purpose of the eff ective registration of orphans and, from the beginning of the eighteenth century, all serfs. These lists were updated every year and even small children under one year of age were recorded. In estates where these lists were maintained, they tended to be drawn up by manorial offi cials until the abolition of serfdom in Bohemia in 1848. The serf lists aimed to record all persons with a permanentresidence each village. The list for each village record was organized according to the social structure, from the highest to the lowest social stratum. The fi rst section was reserved for full peasant holders, followed by smallholders, cott agers, and inmates. In a final section were recorded widows and orphans. The main purpose of this paper is to present the serf lists as an essential and informative archival source which provides indispensible information for historical and genealogical research. The authors seek to show how the serf lists can be used to study phenomena such as peasant mobility and migration, military service, servanthood, rural social structure, and craft apprenticeship..

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_ost - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60101 - History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2025

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

Res Historica

ISSN

2082-6060

e-ISSN

2449-8467

Volume of the periodical

60

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

PL - POLAND

Number of pages

28

Pages from-to

367-394

UT code for WoS article

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