Trading Peasant LandPatterns and Strategies of Land Transactions in Late Medieval

Central Europe and Northern Italy

Workshop

Pavia, �� – �� November ����

There were numerous reasons for changes of possession and various institutions defined the form those transactions took in late medieval times. The Workshop addresses the circulation of landed property in different regions of Central Europe and Northern Italy. The questions centre on structures, acting parties and their priorities.

Thursday�� November ����

��:��–��:�� Welcome Adress and IntroductionThomas Frank (Pavia)

��:��–��:�� Panel � — chaired by Ricardo Rao (Bergamo)

��:��–��:�� The influence of partible inheritance on land transactions among siblings. Lambach mid-��th century Johannes Kaska (Vienna)

��:��–��:�� The ‘land-family bond’ in wine growing villages near Vienna, ����–���� Samuel Nussbaum (Vienna)

��:��–��:�� Coffee Break

��:��–��:�� Vienna’s wine. Citizens and their vineyard investments around ���� AD Thomas Ertl (Berlin)

��:�� Dinner

Location Almo Collegio BorromeoPiazza Borromeo ������ Pavia

Programme

Friday�� November ����

��:��–��:�� Panel � — chaired by Mario Rizzo (Pavia)

��:��–��:�� The transfer of peasant land in the Cheb region around ���� (Czech Republic) Tomás Klír (Prague)

��:��–��:�� A land market among locals – Land transactions in the Aflenz estate (Upper Styria), ����–���� Birgit Heinzle (St. Gallen)

��:��–��:�� Coffee Break

��:��–��:�� Hidden reasons or apparent purchase? Land swap con- tracts in early modern southern Tyrol Janine Maegraith (Vienna)

��:��–��:�� Lunch

��:��–��:�� Panel � — chaired by Amar Salem Baadj (Trier)

��:��–��:�� The lease market in the region of Treviso: the tenants of the Hospital Santa Maria dei Battuti, ��th–��th century Thomas Frank (Pavia)

��:��–��:�� Capitalism and peasants economy. Agrarian contracts, socio-economic stratification and households organisa- tion in the early modern Lombardy Matteo Di Tullio (Pavia)

��:��–��:�� Coffee Break

��:��–��:�� Final DiscussionThomas Ertl (Berlin) and Emmanuel Huertas (Toulouse)

Organisation Thomas Ertl (Berlin)Thomas Frank (Pavia)Samuel Nussbaum (Vienna)

Funding/Support

busytenants.univie.ac.at

Illustration Adaptation of Hans Holbein the Younger’s Dance Macabre, the Husbandman, ����ies