Sixteenth-century Antwerp and its rural surroundings : social and economic changes in the hinterland of a commercial metropolis (ca. 1450-ca. 1570) /

Sixteenth-century Antwerp and its rural surroundings : social and economic changes in the hinterland of a commercial metropolis (ca. 1450-ca. 1570) /

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Author / Creator:Limberger, Michael.
Imprint:Turnhout : Brepols, 2007.
Description:xiii, 284 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Language:English
Series:Studies in European urban history (1100-1800) ; 14
Subject:
Economic history.
Social conditions
Antwerp (Belgium) -- Economic conditions -- 16th century.
Antwerp (Belgium) -- History -- 16th century.
Antwerp (Belgium) -- Social conditions -- 16th century.
Belgium -- Antwerp.
History.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7200602
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ISBN:2503527256
9782503527253
Table of Contents:
  • List of Maps, Graphs and Tables
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Theoretical Background: Sixteenth-century Antwerp and its Rural Surroundings - A Case Study on Economic Transitions in a Metropolitan Histerland
  • Sixteenth-Century Antwerp and its Historiography
  • Metropolitan Cities and their Impact on the Economy of their Rural Hinterland
  • The Low Countries in the Debate on the Transition from Feudalism to Capitalism
  • The Central Questions
  • Antwerp and its Countryside: A Case Study Comparing the Flemish and the Dutch Cases
  • From a Peasant Economy to a Specialised Economy?
  • Concept and Organisation of the Study
  • The Research Area
  • The Organisation of the Study
  • Chapter 1. The Air of Brabant: A General Description of the Brabantine Landscape
  • 1.1. Natural Features
  • 1.1.1. "...flat and for the largest part fertile..." - The Topography and Quality of the Soil
  • 1.1.2. "...beautiful and very useful rivers..." - Hydrology
  • 1.1.3. "...sufficiently adorned with forests and woods..."
  • 1.2. Human Geography
  • 1.2.1. "...beautiful and famous towns..."
  • 1.2.2. "...lands, castles, villages and other seigneuries..." - The Rural World
  • Chapter 2. The Urban Impact on the Rural Economy: Antwerp and its Surroundings in the Late Middle Ages
  • 2.1. Introduction
  • 2.2. The Provision of the Town with Food and Raw Materials
  • 2.3. The Provision of the Countryside with Industrial Goods and imported Products
  • 2.4. Urban Landownership
  • 2.5. The Flow of Migration from the Countryside to the Town
  • 2.6. Conclusion
  • Chapter 3. Demographic Changes (1437-1570)
  • 3.1. The Patterns of Settlement in Western Brabant in 1437
  • 3.1.1. The Brabantine Household Censuses
  • 3.1.2. The Towns
  • 3.1.3. The Patterns of Settlement in the Countryside
  • 3.1.4. The Household Density in the Surroundings of Antwerp
  • 3.1.5. The Social Dimension: The Percentage of Poor Households
  • 3.2. Demographic Changes between 1437 and 1570
  • 3.2.1. The Demographic Crisis of the Late Fifteenth Century
  • 3.2.2. The Demographic Evolution in the Antwerp Countryside
  • 3.2.2.1. The Period Between 1437 and 1464
  • 3.2.2.2. The Period of Demographic Decline: 1472-1496
  • 3.2.2.3. The Situation in 1526
  • 3.2.2.4. The Demographic Evolution after 1526
  • Chapter 4. Urban Demand and the Agrarian System of the Antwerp Hinterland
  • 4.1. Introduction
  • 4.2. The Urban Demand for Agrarian Products
  • 4.2.1. Grain
  • 4.2.2. Meat
  • 4.2.3. Dairy Products
  • 4.2.4. Industrial Crops
  • 4.3. The Response to the Rising Urban Demand
  • 4.3.1. The Town Authorities
  • 4.3.2. Merchants
  • 4.3.3. Landowners and Land Users
  • Chapter 5. Agrarian Production and Productivity in the Fifteenth Century
  • 5.1. The Trend Towards Intensive Husbandry in Medieval Flanders and Brabant
  • 5.2. Lease Contracts as Sources of Agrarian Techniques
  • 5.3. An Example: The Share-Cropping Contract of the Manor Farm "Ter Anderstad" from 1464
  • 5.4. An Analysis of Lease Contracts from the Antwerp Area
  • 5.4.1. Major Crops and Livestock
  • 5.4.2. The Size and Composition of Holdings
  • 5.4.3. The Field Rotation
  • 5.4.4. Fertilising
  • 5.5. The Physical Productivity
  • 5.6. Conclusion
  • Chapter 6. Changes in the Agrarian System During the Sixteenth Century
  • 6.1. A General Balance of the Antwerp Countryside around 1570
  • 6.2. Qualitative Changes According to Lease Contracts
  • 6.3. The Composition of the Crops: Evidence from Leases Payable in Kind
  • 6.4. Traces of Specialised Farming in the Surroundings of Antwerp
  • 6.5. The Evolution of Lease Prices
  • 6.6. Land Values near Antwerp and in the Rest of Brabant
  • 6.7. Conclusion
  • Chapter 7. The Non-Agrarian Sector Faces the Urban Challenge
  • 7.1. Introduction
  • 7.2. Village Crafts Beyond Local Importance
  • 7.2.1. Cloth-Weaving in Duffel, Walem, Kontich and Rumst
  • 7.2.1.1. The Origins of Weaving North of Mechelen
  • 7.2.1.2. Duffel as a Rural Centre of Cloth Export
  • 7.2.1.3. The Organisation of Cloth Production and Marketing
  • 7.2.2. Brewers and Tavern Keepers
  • 7.2.2.1. The Breweries of Rumst
  • 7.2.2.2. The Later Suburbs of Antwerp
  • 7.3. Building Materials and Fuel for the Metropolis
  • 7.3.1. General Remarks
  • 7.3.2. Brick Production Along the Rivers Scheldt and Rupel
  • 7.3.2.1. The Origins of the "Rupel area" as a Centre of Brick Production
  • 7.3.2.2. Owners and Operators of the Brick Ovens
  • 7.3.2.3. The consequences of the Antwerp Building Boom
  • 7.3.3. Woodcutting South of Antwerp
  • 7.3.3.1. The Major Forms of Marketing Wood: Selling Woodcuts and Direct Exploitation
  • 7.3.3.2. Woodcutting as a Source of Extra Income
  • 7.4. Labour in the Transport Sector
  • 7.4.1. Carters and Wagoners
  • 7.4.2. Inland Navigation and Shipbuilding Along the Rivers Scheldt and Rupel
  • 7.5. General Patterns
  • Chapter 8. Landlords and Great Landowners in the Fifteenth Century
  • 8.1. Introduction
  • 8.1.1. The Different Types of Landed Property
  • 8.1.2. Seigniorial Rights
  • 8.1.3. The Sources
  • 8.2. The Different Groups of Landlords and Great Landowners
  • 8.2.1. The Duke of Brabant
  • 8.2.2. The Fief-Holders of the Feudal Court of Brabant
  • 8.2.2.1. The General Distribution of Landed Property
  • 8.2.2.2. The Nobility
  • 8.2.2.3. The Lower Nobility: Knights and Local Seigneurs
  • 8.2.2.4. Urban Patricians
  • 8.2.2.5. Small-Scale Local Landlords
  • 8.2.3. Ecclesiastical Institutions
  • 8.2.3.1. The Institutions in Comparison
  • 8.2.3.2. The Major Collegiate Churches
  • 8.2.3.3. The Abbeys
  • 8.3. Conclusion
  • Chapter 9. The Peasants and their Access to Land
  • 9.1. Introduction
  • 9.2. The Copyholders (Cijnshouders, Laten)
  • 9.2.1. Walem, ca. 1480
  • 9.2.2. The Tenants of the Manor of Helmont (Kontich) 1431
  • 9.2.3. General Features
  • 9.2.4. The Value of the Land Rents
  • 9.3. The Holders of Small Fiefs
  • 9.4. The Leaseholders
  • 9.4.1. The Holders of Large Lease Farms
  • 9.4.2. The Leaseholders of Individual Parcels
  • 9.4.3. The Price of Leased Goods
  • Chapter 10. Antwerp and the Property Relations in its Surroundings During the Sixteenth Century
  • 10.1. Introduction
  • 10.2. The Landed Property of Antwerp Merchants in the Countryside
  • 10.2.1. The Motives for Buying Land
  • 10.2.2. Types of Holdings
  • 10.2.3. The Location of the Holdings
  • 10.3. Inhabitants of Antwerp on the Rural Land Market
  • 10.4. The Result of the Conquest: The Property Relations in Four Villages in 1569/70
  • 10.4.1. The registers of the 100th-Penny Tax of 1569/70
  • 10.4.2. The Social Distribution of Landed Property
  • 10.4.3. The Distribution of Land among the Local Farmers and Tenants
  • Conclusion
  • Rural Brabant in the Fifteenth Century: A Peasant Economy?
  • The Significance of the Rise of Antwerp
  • The Impact of the Demographic growth of Antwerp on the Rural Economy
  • The investment of Antwerp capital in the countryside
  • Antwerp and the Non-Agrarian Sector
  • The Case of Antwerp in Light of the Theoretical Concepts of J. de Vries and R. Brenner
  • Bibliography
  • Appendix
  • Appendix 1. Fifteenth Century Lease Contracts
  • Appendix 2. Farm Leases near Antwerp Payable to St. Elisabeth Hospital (1501-1560)
  • 1. Farmland near Antwerp
  • 2. Waterland in the Polders North of Antwerp
  • Appendix 3. References to Brick Ovens in the Registers of the Antwerp Aldermen, 1491-1563
  • Appendix 4. References to Woodcuts in the Registers of the Antwerp Aldermen 1436-1446 and 1536-1545
  • Appendix 5. Boatmen and Ship-Carpenters along the Rivers Rupel and Scheldt
  • 1. Boatmen along the Rivers Rupel and Scheldt
  • 2. Ship-Carpenters along the Rivers Rupel and Scheldt
  • Appendix 6. Owners of Fiefs in the Surroundings of Antwerp, 1440
  • Appendix 7. Landed Property in 1570
  • 1. Boechout
  • 2. Edegem
  • 3. Schoten
  • 4. Duffel ter-Elst

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