Šosovní, nebo poddanské vesnice? K interpretaci pozemkového příslušenství zeměpanských měst ve středověku

• Authors: Jan Lhoták

Title variants

EN

Borough (= Šos) or Serf Villages? On the Interpretation of the Estate Property of Landowning Towns in the Middle Ages

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

This contribution attempts to clarify the concept and legal position of the so-called borough (= šos) villages attached to free Royal boroughs in the pre-Hussite period. He deals with the notion of town property tax (šos in Czech), its earlier interpretations in Czech historiography and defines its meaning by analysing the system of fiscal duties in free Royal towns (feu duty, property taxes). He then pays attention to the legal relationship between borough villages and the sovereign and to the rights the latter exercised on their territories (patronage rights, consent for land transactions). The author provides a survey of possible options in which municipal law penetrated into the countryside (weichbild, the nobility granting the option that municipal law might be used, etc.). In its conclusion he argues against the usage of the concept of borough landed estates for the period prior to 1420.

Keywords

EN

Bohemia, the Middle Ages; legal history; town and countryside; land-owning; towns; free Royal boroughs; borough (= šos) villages; town villages; weichbild; borough; treasury; property taxes – losungen; šos; borough landed estates

Discipline

• HISTORY: HISTORY

• Publisher: Institute of History, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Český časopis historický (The Czech Historical Review)
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 111
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 517-562

Contributors

author

Jan Lhoták

• Muzeum Šumavy Sušice, náměstí Svobody čp. 40/I, 342 01 Sušice, Czech Republic