Index

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. CONTENTS V
3. MAPS IX
4. TABLES XI
5. FIGURES XIII
6. ABBREVIATIONS XV
7. PREFACE XIX
8. I. Contexts for a Rural History
9. 1. Introduction: Approaching Agrarian History in Medieval East-Central Europe 3
10. 2. Environments: The Duchy of Wrocław as Region and Polity 13
11. 3. The Changing Polish Countryside of the High Middle Ages 34
12. II. Organizing Agricultural Resources
13. 4. Locare iure Theutonico: Instrument and Structure for a New Institutional Order 61
14. 5. Demesne Farming in the Age of German Law 93
15. 6. Demesne, Tenancy, and Agricultural Conditions in a Long Fourteenth Century, ca. 1300–ca. 1425 114
16. III. A Social System in Action
17. 7. The Landed Elite: Landlord Rights in Social Contexts 151
18. 8. The Lord and the Lordship: What Did a Landlord Do? 196
19. 9. Villagers in and Beyond Their Communities 235
20. IV. The Erosion of a Socio-Economic Order
21. 10. The Storm, ca.1425–ca. 1480 273
22. 11. Aftermath: Ambiguous Reconstruction 319
23. 12. Straws in a Chilling Wind 352
24. 13. Retrospect: Rural Lives Around Late Medieval Wrocław 370
25. Appendices
26. A. Materials and Methods for Measuring Long-Term Change in Lordship and Farm Management 377
27. В. Notes on Money in Medieval Silesia 400
28. С. On the Names of Places and People 405
29. Notes to Text 409
30. Notes to Maps and Figures 478
31. Glossary 485
32. Pronunciation Guide 489
33. Bibliography 491
34. Gazetteer and Concordance of Topographic Names 531
35. Index 553
36. Backmatter 583