Week 12

 Economy and society

Agriculture, rural economy, and cities
  • Curta 416-424
  • Petkov 231-244
  • Miklós Takács, "Nucleated and/or dispersed medieval rural settlements from the Arpadian and the Angevin age in the West Hungarian region of Kisalföld," in Ruralia III. Conference Ruralia III, Maynooth, 3rd-9th September 1999, edited by Jan Klápšte (Prague, 2000), pp. 240-251 (Pack)
  • József Laszlovszky, "Field systems in medieval Hungary," in ... The Man of Many Devices, Who Wandered Full Many Years... Festschrift in Honor of János M. Bak, ed. by Balázs Nagy and Marcell Sebök (Budapest, 1999), pp. 433-44 (Pack)
  • Martyn Rady, "The German settlement in Central and Eastern Europe during the High Middle Ages," in The German Lands and Eastern Europe. Essays on the History of Their Social, Cultural, and Political Relations, ed. by Roger Bartlett and Karen Schönwälder (Houndmills/New York, 1999), pp. 11-47 (Pack)
Feudalism in Eastern Europe
  • Curta 424-430
  • Piotr Górecki, "Words, concepts, and phenomena: knighthood, lordship and the early Polish nobility (c. 1050-1150)," in Nobles and Nobility in Medieval Europe. Concepts, Origins, Transformations, ed. by Anne Duggan (Woodbridge/Rochester, 2000), pp. 115-55 (available online)
  • Piotr Górecki, "Viator to ascriptitius: rural economy, lordship and the origins of serfdom in medieval Poland," Slavic Review 42 (1983), 14-35 (available online)
  • see a genealogical tree of the Elefánthy family