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Demesne or leasehold? Estate management in southern Flanders during the price shocks of the fourteenth century
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Abstract
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| Recent research has again underlined the importance of the 14th century as a period of shocks and systemic transition embedded in a broader context of environmental instability and societal vulnerability. Disease, warfare and harvest failure frequently caused price shocks in the grain market against which players on the grain market had to adapt and react. Based on several series of late medieval accounts I have studied the adaptations in the income and expense strategies of grain by large ecclesiastical landlords, who acted as large producers, distributors and consumers of grain. Rather than being passive bystanders in the grain market, these landlords actively reacted to the changing socioeconomic realities. With their eye on a durable and long-term food income strategy based on their demographic evolution, they adapted their balance between leasehold and direct management of their arable land, in preference to a profit-maximizing approach. |
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Language
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English
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Source (journal)
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Revue belge de philologie et d'histoire / Société pour le progrès des études philologiques et historiques [Bruxelles] - Bruxelles, 1922, currens
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Publication
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Bruxelles
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2022
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ISSN
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0035-0818
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2295-9068
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Volume/pages
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100
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, p. 275-304
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001162797700001
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