Beyond royal estates and monasteries: landownership in the early medieval Ardennes
Jean‐Pierre Devroey|Nicolas Schroeder
Most historians who have studied the medieval Ardennes focused exclusively on royal and monastic properties, assuming that every early reference to land in area is either property of monasteries or fiscal land. Actually, evidence from region around Bastogne (Belgium), centre what would later be called pagus Ardennensis, shows as seventh century ‘private’ landowners were present active area. This observation leads a new reading rural economy society, formation links between local power Ardennes.
Early Medieval Europe