From tribute to taxpaying: the changes in the understanding of private property in Denmark circa 1000–1250
Helle Vogt
ABSTRACTThe focus of the paper is about how concept property and possession land changed in Denmark from c. 1000 to 1250. Until mid twelfth century, we are mostly depending archaeological material few narrative sources, they give an impression a system where various persons could have rights claims same landed – farmer who cultivated it, local lord had right tribute, his king. This was challenged when Church established eleventh century started get large donations. The claimed full donated land, something that lead conflicts, one response introduction if written laws with firm rules transfer ownership. did not mean kinsmen stopped questioning donations or sales ecclesiastical institutions thirteenth but rather conflicts were leg...
Danish journal of archaeology