Jurij Kanjaschin: Parzelle als Flurbestandteil des
mittelalterlichen Burgund (nach den
Quellen des Mâconbezirkes im X.–XI. Jahrhundert)
The purpose of this paper is to expose the information that parcellas present for the reconstruction of the picture of fields on the territory of Medieval Burgundy from the viewpoint of land exploration. Studying a large number of monastery documents the author noticed unusual descriptions of parcellas’ sizes and configurations. In some cases land-owners pointed out that the length of the parcella was shorter than its width. The present work is devoted to the research of this historical phenomenon. Formulating the problem this way enabled the author to expose peculiarities of spatial thinking of Burgundy land owners, which was based on the notion of “a field”, as well as to explain these peculiarities scientifically.