The Transfer of Peasant Land in the Cheb region around 1450 as the part of social and geographic mobility
2018
Abstract
The subject of the paper is the transmission of material wealth, including land, as the part of the general issue of social and geographic mobility of the peasantry. Our focus region is the Cheb region (Egerland) situated among Bavaria, Franconia, Bohemia and Saxony.
At the centre of attention stands the differences between the wealthy and poor families, namely (1) the variances in the stability and continuity of land holdings, (2) the intensity and character of the land transfers, (3) the trajectory of the property position during the lifecycle, in the intergenerational change and in the social aspects of geographic mobility.