The abandonment of the long-term agricultural contracts, practically lifelong and hereditary, characteristic of the early Middle Ages, and the emergence of short-term mezzadria (sharecropping), the expression of a different relationship between landlords and peasants, characterized by greater control of work and a greater burden of impositions and levies, took place between the thirteenth and fifteenth centuries in a progressive and laborious way, given the tenacity of custom and traditional use. The demographic collapse of the fourteenth century led to a general revision of economic and social relations, which favoured and accelerated this transition. This phenomenon was supported by urban legislation that protected the interests of the landowners. The example of Romagna, analyzed here, was common to several areas of central-northern Italy.
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Titolo del capitolo
Crisi demografica e rapporti di lavoro: la modificazione dei contratti agrari e della vita contadina nella Romagna del XIV-XV secolo
Autori
Massimo Montanari
Lingua
Italian
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0705-8.17
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Anno di pubblicazione
2025
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Titolo del libro
Socio-Economic Inequalities during the Conjuncture of the Fourteenth Century
Sottotitolo del libro
Sources and Methods, Dynamics and Representations (Italy and Europe, c. 1270 - c. 1350)
Curatori
Davide Cristoferi
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Numero di pagine
458
Anno di pubblicazione
2025
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© 2025 Author(s)
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Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0705-8
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979-12-215-0699-0
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979-12-215-0705-8
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979-12-215-0707-2
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Reti Medievali E-Book
ISSN della collana
2704-6362
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2704-6079