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Legal Capacity and Servile Dues of Manorial Peasants during the Carolingian Era

  • Korean Review of French History
  • Abbr : KRFH
  • 2016, (35), pp.5~35
  • Publisher : KOREAN SOCIETY FOR FRENCH HISTORY
  • Research Area : Humanities > History

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1동아대학교 사학과 교수

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ABSTRACT

We have only a few of records concerning legal capacity and servile dues of manorial peasants during the Carolingian era. Nevertheless, it’s plain that poll tax was already being imposed on considerable number of peasants in the manors of St. Germain des Prés abbey at the early ninth century, and circumstantial evidences show that the imposition gradually was extending over time. As for merchet and heriot, there are evidences that prove the payments of these dues to the lords before 9th century and around the end of 9th century. Besides, we can see lord’s careful regulation of exogamy among peasants and occasional mentions of inheritance tax in the polyptych of St. Germain des Prés abbey. Consequently, we may say that there were servile dues in a fair number of manors and were increasingly spreading during the Caroligian period. So, existing theory that serfdom of legal and caste-systemic conception does not exist before 11th century will need to be reconsidered.

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