The system of land ownership between the ninth and tenth centuries was significantly influenced by a series of environmental and cultural factors mediated by the customs of those notaries tasked with certifying and registering property deeds. The language used in notarial deeds to describe real estate in the areas of Venice and Milan will be analysed here in order to reconstruct the forms that the organisation of landed property took, together with the agrarian landscape of the time, and to ascertain what resources were actually available and utilised during that historical period. In doing so, evidence will be offered of the many similarities between properties, deriving from the notaries’ ability to define land organisation in a similar manner through their use of a standardised language of property ownership.
Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0003-1769-4742
Chapter Title
Aristocratic land ownership. Land ownership between the centre and the hinterland as represented in the language of notarial deeds
Authors
Anna Rapetti
Language
English
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0771-3.08
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Publication Year
2025
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Book Title
Aristocratic networks. Elites and social dynamics in Italy in the age of Lothar I
Editors
Giuseppe Albertoni, Manuel Fauliri, Leonardo Sernagiotto
Peer Reviewed
Number of Pages
350
Publication Year
2025
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© 2025 Author(s)
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Publisher Name
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0771-3
ISBN Print
979-12-215-0770-6
eISBN (pdf)
979-12-215-0771-3
eISBN (xml)
979-12-215-0773-7
Series Title
Reti Medievali E-Book
Series ISSN
2704-6362
Series E-ISSN
2704-6079