Organising Landed Property: Manorial Administration Strategies in the 15<sup>th</sup> and Early 16<sup>th</sup> Centuries
Johannes Kaska|Samuel Nussbaum
Abstract This paper provides an analysis of micro-level processes in the land administration two different monastic estates, Lambach Upper Austria and Klosterneuburg Lower Austria, 15 th early 16 centuries. It argues that several institutional factors can be seen as driving forces administrative progress innovation. To keep up with not always congruent economic, legal social demands, monasteries pursued strategies administering their landed property. Their approaches advancements indicate development bureaucratic use written texts should one ever-increasing rationalities but rather result a multilayered cultural process.
Administory. Zeitschrift für Verwaltungsgeschichte