Manorial Organization in the Low Countries in the Seventh, Eighth and Ninth Centuries
François Louis Ganshof
The type of economic organization known as the manor existed in north Gaul, including regions which were later to be Low Countries, 1 Merovingian period and even Roman times, but it is not till eighth century that evidence regarding becomes relatively abundant. little can said its structure diffusion before Carolingian only an introductory character. We have no relative proportions large, middle-sized, small estates, there doubt from texts seventh early centuries indeed very estates at this period.
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