The Cistercian model? The Application of the Grange System by the Various Religious Orders in the Frisian Coastal Area, 1150–1400
J.A. Mol
The economic success of the reform orders in high medieval Europe is often linked with application so-called grange-system. Monasteries would have financed their expansion surplus production large farms operated by lay brothers. This paper tests assumption that Cistercians provided model, comparing data on location, size and chronology c. 173 granges Frisian coastal area, belonging to monasteries various orders. It shown Benedictines Affligem-filiation were responsible for introduction system here. They developed medium-sized granges, some which attached parish churches. only interested creating outlying units, building complexes surrounded moats. Some other did build up such as well. Their usage ‘Cistercian’ term grangia suggests they might copied Cistercian template doing so.
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