Economic Urban-Rural Relations in the Bohemian Lands at the Turn from the Middle Ages to the Early Modern Period
2010
Abstract
While previously the Bohemian market system had been dominated by royal towns, from the 15th century onwards, the Bohemian lands experienced an expansion of seigniorial towns and small towns. Furthermore, a considerable part of the trade was not conducted on institutionalised markets but between traders and peasants as well as seigniorial lords and their subjects.
From the sixteent century onwards, noble seigneiorial lords ventured in brewing, creating for the traditional breweries in royal towns. In turn, the royal towns strengthened their role as manorial lords.