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Medieval Agrarian Society in its Prime: The lands east of the Elbe and German colonisation eastwards
| Content Provider | Scilit |
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| Author | Aubin, Hermann |
| Copyright Year | 2017 |
| Description | This chapter presents the Wends, between the Elbe and the Oder, at the time of the German conquest still in a state of almost tribal organisation, with chieftains and under-chieftains. Social conditions developed in the same way, from the tenth to the twelfth century, among the Wends who lived along the Elbe, as they came under German rulers. A fully developed state and Church had to be maintained. Conquest gave a complete royal prerogative over land. Whether the lord was a German or a Slav, colonisation went on in much the same way. German wars of conquest or conversion neither exterminated the heathen natives nor even drove them out. In the twelfth century, speaking generally, they affected only the immediately adjacent frontier strips of Brandenburg, East Holstein and Mecklenburg; and again in the thirteenth, and more severely, East Prussia. As time went on the German agrarian system began to spread at other points also beyond the limits of German colonisation. Book Name: The Expansion of Central Europe in the Middle Ages |
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| DOI | 10.4324/9781315239781-3 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited |
| Publisher Date | 2017-05-15 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Book Name: The Expansion of Central Europe in the Middle Ages Colonisation Chieftains Agrarian Conquest Century |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Chapter |
