El mercat de la terra a la Catalunya baix medieval. La vall d'Amer (1350-1399)
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ENG- This thesis aims to study the characteristics and evolution of the land market in the Catalan territory during the XIV century through the case of Amer Valley, an space inhabited by peasants, who resided in the typical unit of exploitation in the so called Old Catalonia –the masos–, and by artisans and merchants as well, those residing in a small urban center; a village-market with its notary, from which exceptional notarial records have been preserved to this day. This investigation utilizes a sample of almost a thousand documents, in a span from the 1350s –after the Black Death– to the year 1399, and concerning land transactions —sells of land, establishments, lease contracts and exchanges of land— or to the socioeconomic live of the valley’s residents –marriage contracts, inheritances, inter-vivos donations, wills and credit or violaris contracts–. Our objective will be, in the first place, and after an introductory section, to put the landscape, demography and institutional organization of the valley in context. The third section of the thesis will explain the movement of the market during the studies period, identifying the processes of growth and decrease in its activity, and the influence that the great mortality caused by the pandemic had on said activity. We will examine the people who participated in these operations; we will appraise if the reasons behind the agreement for prices can be discerned, and we will compare the number of sales of land with other instruments of transmission of the land. The fourth and last section will revolve around families and their relationship with land, at the same time studying the economic capacities of the residents of Amer and the socioeconomic inequality in the valley
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