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Heerlijke karweien in het graafschap Vlaanderen tijdens de zeventiende en achttiende eeuw

Labour Services in the County of Flanders during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries

dc.contributor.authorLambrecht, Thijs
dc.contributor.authorVerfaillie, Joke
dc.contributor.editorVan Hofstraeten, Bram
dc.contributor.editorBrood, Paul
dc.coverage.spatialFlandersen_US
dc.coverage.temporal17th centuryen_US
dc.coverage.temporal18th centuryen_US
dc.date2025-12-01
dc.date.accessioned2026-01-17T15:22:40Z
dc.date.available2026-01-17T15:22:40Z
dc.date.issued2025
dc.identifier.citationLambrecht, T., & Verfaillie, J. (2025). Heerlijke karweien in het graafschap Vlaanderen tijdens de zeventiende en achttiende eeuw, in: Pro Memorie. Bijdragen tot de rechtsgeschiedenis der Nederlanden, 27(2), 265-282. https://doi.org/10.5117/PM2025.2.005.LAMBen_US
dc.identifier.issnISSN: 1566-7146
dc.identifier.issnE-ISSN: 2667-1611
dc.identifier.urihttps://orfeo.belnet.be/handle/internal/14540
dc.descriptionThis article examines practical aspects associated with the enforcement and execution of servile works in the County of Flanders during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, a feudal right that required peasants to perform labour for their lord. Although this ‘corvée’ labour largely fell into disuse from the late Middle Ages onwards, archival sources from Poeke and Boelare show that the system was still actively applied locally. Analysis of corvée records reveals remarkable flexibility in implementation, differentiation according to socio-economic status and a gradual transition to optional redemption systems – all of which mainly benefited the peasantries. The administration of servile works was therefore complex and reflected demographic changes within the seigneuries. The downside was a particularly high administrative burden for the lord, raising the question of whether this indirect cost was not one of the causes of the system’s decline. Finally, this study nuances the image of early modern corvée labour as inherently conflictual as most subjects of the lords executed their labour duties without clear signs of protest or contention.en_US
dc.languagenlden_US
dc.publisherAmsterdam University Pressen_US
dc.titleHeerlijke karweien in het graafschap Vlaanderen tijdens de zeventiende en achttiende eeuwen_US
dc.titleLabour Services in the County of Flanders during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.subject.frascatiHistory and Archaeologyen_US
dc.audienceScientificen_US
dc.subject.freefeudal rightsen_US
dc.subject.freeseigneuriesen_US
dc.subject.freeservile worksen_US
dc.subject.freeheerlijkhedenen_US
dc.source.titlePro Memorie. Bijdragen tot de rechtsgeschiedenis der Nederlandenen_US
dc.source.volume27en_US
dc.source.issue2en_US
dc.source.page265-282en_US
dc.relation.projectLORD - Lordship and State Formation in the County of Flanders, 15th-18th Centuryen_US
Orfeo.peerreviewedYesen_US
dc.identifier.publisherlinkhttps://www.aup-online.com/
dc.identifier.urlhttps://www.aup-online.com/content/journals/10.5117/PM2025.2.005.LAMB
dc.identifier.depositnumberhttps://doi.org/10.5117/PM2025.2.005.LAMB
dc.relation.belspo-projectLORD - Lordship and State Formation in the County of Flanders, 15th-18th Centuryen_US
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