Published: 2024-07-21

Rural excesses in Silesia in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries — proposed typology and selected problems

Krzysztof Fokt , Maria Legut-Pintal
Kwartalnik Historii Kultury Materialnej
Section: Studies and Materials
DOI https://doi.org/10.23858/KHKM72.2024.2.001

Abstract

The aim of the paper is to systematise and complement knowledge about so-called excesses (Polish: przymiarki, namiarki, zbytki, napłatki, German: Überschar), which
were additional parcels of land admeasured beyond the area of peasants’ fiefs. It is based on the analysis of published Silesian written sources from the thirteenth and
fourteenth centuries. The ways of creating the excesses, like the measurements and alienations of plots, were discussed in detail. Attention was also paid to the legal status of those plots, their devolution to dominions, episcopal claims to tithes from them, as well as reasons that might have made landlords qualify particular pieces of land as excesses. For two Silesian villages (Pakosławice and Górzec), preserved maps allowed to confront the data from mediaeval documents with their topography and admeasurement before the separation and new division of fields in the 1820s.

Keywords:

Middle Ages, village, measurement, law, Silesia

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Fokt, K., & Legut-Pintal, M. (2024). Rural excesses in Silesia in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries — proposed typology and selected problems. Kwartalnik Historii Kultury Materialnej, 72(2), 155–170. https://doi.org/10.23858/KHKM72.2024.2.001

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