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Land Transfer in a Late Medieval City State: Cheb Region 1438-1456

Publication at Faculty of Arts |
2021

Abstract

This study contains the basic characteristics of the social agrosystem and land market in the late medieval Cheb (Eger) Region. Based on the historical context and the institutional framework, the study analyses the numerous segments of the land market and categorises the transfers according to both the social, economic and legal nature of the land and the social position of the actors.

Within the individual segments, we analyse the frequency and nature of the land mobility. As a result, a peasant society emerges that is characterised by high land mobility and tenants moving between holdings.

The frequency of land transfers, family continuity on the same holding and migration correlated significantly with the property position of tenants and the monetary value of their holdings.