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Farms and families in ninth‐century Provence
Author(s) -
Faith Rosamond
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
early medieval europe
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.1
H-Index - 24
eISSN - 1468-0254
pISSN - 0963-9462
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-0254.2010.00295.x
Subject(s) - peasant , inheritance (genetic algorithm) , ninth , estate , animal husbandry , geography , genealogy , work (physics) , history , socioeconomics , demography , demographic economics , sociology , archaeology , political science , agriculture , engineering , economics , law , biology , mechanical engineering , biochemistry , physics , gene , acoustics
Information about the people recorded in 813–14 on the estate of St Victor de Marseilles shows that although considered to belong to the monastery they were an independent peasant class. Family size and structure varied: some farms were run by the labour of the family which included unmarried sons and ‘married‐in’ sons‐in‐law; other farmers employed living‐in servants in husbandry. The mountain sheep farms had large groups of unmarried young people. Inheritance systems ensured that the peasant family property remained intact over the generations and provided support for unmarried sons who remained to work there.