Married women and their landholdings: the evidence from feet of fines, 1310–1509

Yates, Margaret

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“…This significant improvement in bookkeeping practices by the local stewards has to be seen in relationship to the increasing emergence of local rural aldermen's benches (Soly, 1974). Consequently the quality of manorial accounts came close to the detail provided within the aldermen's registers and are highly comparable to the English manor court rolls and feet of fines (Yates, 2013b; Yates, 2013a; Goodyear-Garrett, 2014; Schofield, 2005). In both the duchy of Evergem and the domain of Kruikenbrug the owners of the surrounding plots were referred to as well, consequently, effectively chronicling the property's geographical as well as social embeddedness in a fashion similar to collective memory as has been argued by Ian Blanchard (Blanchard, 1984).…”

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“…English research on the peasant land market, for example, is highly dependent on the use of legal documents (manorial court rolls) to track land sales (Schofield, 2005; Dribe, Olsson, and Svensson, 2012; Goodyear-Garrett, 2014; Campbell, 2009; Davies and Kissock, 2004). Recently, Margret Yates has convincingly managed to use feet of fines as the starting point for her analysis of the late medieval rural land market in south-west England (Yates, 2013a; Yates, 2013b). The latter were not designed to serve as a legal document but were registered either because taxes were due on the transfer or for accounting purposes.…”

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Abstract:The emergence of factor markets during the transition from the Middle Ages to the early modern period was of crucial importance for long-term economic development. Despite Flanders and Brabant being situated in one of the most densely urbanised regions within Europe at the time, the current historiographical debate lacks a quantitative analysis of the market for land in the late medieval and early modern Low Countries. This article focuses on the transmission of rural property in the southern Low Countries from the 1400s up until the end of the eighteenth century. Using time-series data on the rural land market for a selection of case studies within Inland Flanders and Brabant has enabled me to present a long-run analysis of the changes in the market value of land, the market activity and the overall nature of the rural peasant land market. My findings show a tendency towards fewer but larger holdings being transferred on the land market. The path-dependent nature of this process had a significant impact upon the changing proto-capitalistic nature of agriculture within the southern Low Countries. As per capita market activity declined and the average transfer size increased, the farmers’ dependency on the lease market grew effectively speeding up the pauperisation processes in Inland Flanders.

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The gender distribution of real property ownership in late medieval Brussels (1356–1460)

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2018

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Although ownership of real property was crucial to the economic opportunities of medieval urban women, few studies systematically investigate the gender distribution of medieval real property over time. Using censiers (rarely used sources), this article approaches this question through a socio-geographical analysis of Brussels. The study finds that, despite the region's egalitarian inheritance laws, female ownership of real property was relatively limited, and it declined during the late Middle Ages. This decrease accelerated during economic crises, and especially affected the property of non-elite women. Further research on the changing economic opportunities of medieval women would benefit from a more explicit discussion of non-labour income sources and social status.

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Married women and their landholdings: the evidence from feet of fines, 1310–1509

Abstract: Link to this article: http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S0268416013000234 How to cite this article: MARGARET YATES (2013). Married women and their landholdings: the evidence from feet of nes, 1310-1509.

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The Rural Land Market in Early Modern Inland Flanders and Brabant: A Long Run Perspective

The Rural Land Market in Early Modern Inland Flanders and Brabant: A Long Run Perspective

The gender distribution of real property ownership in late medieval Brussels (1356–1460)

Review of periodical literature published in 2013

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