Power and exploitation in the Czech lands in the 10th-12th centuries

Titel: Power and exploitation in the Czech lands in the 10th-12th centuries : a Central European perspective / by Tomáš Petráček ; translated by Sean Miller
Verfasser:
Veröffentlicht: Leiden; Boston : Brill, [2017]
Umfang: VI, 373 Seiten : Karten ; 25 cm
Format: Buch
Sprache: Englisch
Schriftenreihe/
mehrbändiges Werk:
East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450 ; volume 40
Einheitssachtitel: Fenomén darovaných lidí v českých zemích 11
Schlagworte:
ISBN: 9789004284883
Buchumschlag
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  • Acknowledgements
  • p. vii
  • List of Maps
  • p. viii
  • List of Abbreviations
  • p. ix
  • 1
  • Introduction
  • p. 1
  • 2
  • Overview of the Research
  • p. 8
  • From Palacky to Lippert
  • p. 8
  • Josef Susta and a Conceptual Reversal
  • p. 16
  • Marxist Adaptation
  • p. 29
  • The Service System and a Change of View
  • p. 34
  • New Impulses and Syntheses
  • p. 41
  • 3
  • Donated People in Social and Economic Contexts
  • p. 52
  • Court Servants and the Gynaeceum
  • p. 52
  • Plowmen
  • p. 58
  • Vine-Dressers, Fishermen and Herdsmen
  • p. 62
  • Non-Agricultural Services and Crafts
  • p. 69
  • Church Custodians, Bell Ringers and Animatorea
  • p. 75
  • The Disappearance of Donated Persons
  • p. 80
  • The Socio-Legal Position of Donated Persons
  • p. 87
  • Interpretation of the Term Servus
  • p. 101
  • 4
  • Free Strata of the Agricultural Population
  • p. 111
  • Duke, Farmers and Freedom
  • p. 111
  • Who were the Hospites?
  • p. 126
  • Land Burdens and Free Farmers
  • p. 132
  • 5
  • Donated People and the Economy of the Premyslid State
  • p. 138
  • The Issue of the Manorial Estates and Ducal Courts
  • p. 138
  • On the Character and Efficiency of the Administrative Structures
  • p. 157
  • Formation of the New Economy
  • p. 165
  • The Manorial Estates and the Beginnings of Water Mills
  • p. 174
  • 6
  • Bohemian Society in a Central European Context
  • p. 179
  • The Genesis and Nature of the Ruler's Power
  • p. 179
  • Social Stratitication as seen by Contemporaries
  • p. 191
  • Issues of Social Mobility
  • p. 200
  • Ecclesiastical Manorial Estates, Serfs and Gospels
  • p. 213
  • 7
  • Conclusion
  • p. 232
  • 8
  • Appendix: Donated People in the Written Sources
  • p. 236
  • Diplomatic Texts
  • p. 236
  • Narrative Sources
  • p. 321
  • Bibliography
  • p. 349
  • Index
  • p. 369