Propiedad, explotación agraria y organización del trabajo en Tierra de Campos a fines de la Edad Media

Hipólito Rafael Oliva Herrer
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Hipólito Rafael Oliva Herrer: Universidad de Valladolid

Historia Agraria. Revista de Agricultura e Historia Rural, 2000, issue 21, 33-61

Abstract: This article analyzes the property structure, , the farming methods, and the labour organization of the rural communities in the Tierra de Campos region in the 15th and 16th century, based on the model of the Becerril de Campos village. The prolusion of sources and the strong hegemony of the peasant property, given its specific legal status of behetría or fief benefice, results in a model that can be easily extrapolated, which reveals a community that is widely inserted in the trade circuit and notably fractured given the great inequality in terms of access to land. In that community, the counterpoint of the emergence of a stratum of wealthy peasants was the lack of an agrarian base of very significant number of the inhabitants. Furthermore, the political levels of the community played a major role in upholding a set of productive relationships to the wealthier dwellers, and therefore drove further inequality.

Keywords: : Rural society; late medieval and early modern Castilian history; peasant land property productive relationships; labour organization (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2000
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