Volker Stamm: Kauf und Verkauf von Land und Grundrenten im hohen und späten Mittelalter. Eine Untersuchung zur historischen Wirtschaftsanthropologie

What did it mean to sell land in the later Middle Ages? Who were the sellers, who the buyers? How frequent were such transactions? Which obligations had to be respected in order to make the intended contracts valid? These questions are addressed in the following paper, relying on sources from Tyrol. The methods used are those of economic anthropology, which gives emphasis to the social context of economic activities. The field of inquiry is then enlarged upon claims to revenue from land. It is shown that these claims were often dissociated from their material basis, the landed property. They circulated as abstract titles to rent and could be sold without any effect on the property in the corresponding estate.

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