Land and Society
in Golden Age Castile
David E. Vassberg
Author's foreword
Abbreviations
Glossary
Chapter One : The communitarian tradition [5]
Chapter Two : Municipal property [19]The principle and origin of public ownership [6]
Crown lands and baldíos [7]
Presura [10]
The derrota de mieses [13]
Chapter Three : Other aspects of the communitarian system [57]Proprios [21]
Commons [26]
Dehesas [28]
Cotos, prados, and entrepanes [32]
The question of eligibility [33]
Montes [36]
Common arable [40]
Tierras entradizas [41]
Cultivation in the monte [42]
Tierras cadañeras [43]
Registration [45]
Periodic allotments [47]
Payment for the use of commons [52]
Other commons [53]
Chapter Four : Private property ownership: the privileged estates [90]Intermunicipal commons [57]
Protecting the system [64]
Boundary inspection [76]
The Law of Toledo [77]
The Mesta [79]
The importance of the communitarian system [83]
The survival of the communitarian system in later Spain [86]
The communitarian tradition in the rest of Europe [89]
Chapter Five : Private property ownership: the non-privileged [120]The nobility [91]
Seigneurially sponsored settlement [93]
Seigneurial dues [96]
The choice between señorío and realengo[97]
The origins of noble property ownership [99]
Other factors in the growth of latifundios [100]
Geographical distribution of noble landownership [103]
Characteristics of the latifundio [104]
The noble labrador and his property [107]
Ecclesistical landownership [109]
Characteristics of church-owned lands [113]
Property of the military orders [114]
Chapter Six : Changes in production and ownership [151]Peasant landownership [120]
Peasant gardens and vineyards [128]
Complant contracts [132]
The importance of peasant landownership [134]
The distribution of peasant property ownership [137]
Rich and poor peasants [141]
The bourgeois landowner [147]
Chapter Seven : The increasing rural malaise [184]The shifting agropastoral balance [151]
The conversion from oxen to mules [158]
The impact of the Indies [163]
Old and new towns (the villazgos) [165]
The Castile enclosure movement [169]
The sale of the baldíos [172]
The clash between Christian and Moslem agriculture [176]
BibliographyPrices and markers [184]
Crop yields [197]
Peasant indebtedness [204]
Rental costs [211]
Taxation [219]
The culmination of rural misery [227]
TABLES
1: Proportion of different cereals produced
2. Sample grain yields
MAPS
Map 1 : The Iberian Peninsula in the 1500s
Map 2 : Municipal and intermunicipal lands
of Gerena and El Garrobo (Seville Province)
Map 3 : Lands of the military orders
Map 4 : Plowings in territory of Horche
(Guadalajara)
NOTE: Material in this volume may be cited by reference to the specific chapter URL of this internet edition, or by reference to the pagination of the original 1984 Cambridge University Press edition. This is inserted into the text in boldface, set off in brackets, as in [33].
