Publication details
Nástin procesu zanikání sídel ve středověku na panství Brtnice v územním rozsahu k roku 1538
| Title in English | An Outline of the Process of Abandonment of Settlement Sites in the Brtnice Demesne as of the Year 1538 |
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| Authors | |
| Year of publication | 2017 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Archaeologia historica |
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| Citation | |
| Web | Digitální knihovna FF MU |
| Doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.5817/AH2017-2-17 |
| Field | Archaeology, anthropology, ethnology |
| Keywords | written sources; urbarium; prosecution registers; land registers; defunct settlement; abandoned villages – farming hinterland; demesne; mining precious metals; castle; settlement development |
| Description | This contribution employs a list of settlement sites in the Brtnice demesne, along with the division of farmland in their hinterland recorded in an urbarium of the Brtnice demesne that came into existence around 1538, to outline the process of their abandonment. The urbarium lists seventeen abandoned villages, a homestead and disused land. Mentions of property transfers and a search for the possible period of decline in written sources are supplemented, with some locations, with prospection for anthropogennous relics in the landscape. Defunct settlement sites of a village character with a farming hinterland present in written sources interesting elements of property transactions, from which the use of the medieval landscape and its delimitations can be derived. |