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La cartographie et les droits de propriété dans la Flandre rurale, du xvie au xviiie siècle
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Abstract
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| Maps are more than just visual representations of the landscape. They can describe, endorse and transform the spaces they represent. They are powerful instruments used by large landowners and institutions to validate and reinforce their land claims. More surprisingly, in some cases, maps can also play a role in the creation and precise, unambiguous definition of property rights. Parcel maps helped to simplify access to and use of land by helping to divide it up into discrete parcels, which could then be sold on the land market, used as mortgages to secure credit, or employed by the state for tax purposes. In general terms, then, the cartographic revolution of the 16th century gave both large landowners (private and institutional) and public authorities access to a relatively inexpensive and homogeneous tool for representing and delimiting land ownership. In practice, however, the role of parcel maps in defining property rights was far from universal. In this contribution, we compare the formal uniformity of sixteenth-, seventeenth- and eighteenth-century parcel maps with the regional variety of land ownership and use systems (so-called "social-agro systems"), combining recent advances in research into the economic history of property rights, the planimetric accuracy of maps and land delimitation. |
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Language
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French
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Cartographier le parcellaire rural dans l'Europe d'Ancien Régime / Antoine, A. [edit.]; Benjamin Landais, B. [edit.]
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Histoire
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Publication
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Rennes
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Presses universitaires de Rennes
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2024
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ISBN
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978-2-7535-9752-5
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DOI
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10.4000/BOOKS.PUR.195139
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Volume/pages
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p. 177-200
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Full text (publisher's version - intranet only)
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