Die Dorfordnungen des Amtes Rodach

Description

Village ordinances, a typical manifestation of rural legal sources, had a lasting impact on village life throughout the early modern period. This book examines 42 village ordinances of the Amt Rodach, an administrative unit in the former Principality of Saxe-Coburg, dating from the late 16th to the early 19th century. They contain detailed codes of conduct designed to regulate social and economic coexistence in early modern villages in the spirit of "good policey." The Thirty Years' War also played a major role in this context; its catastrophic consequences for the population of the Coburg region led to a veritable wave of standardization in the second half of the 17th century. The presentation of some classic regulatory areas (village assemblies, field and land management, fire protection, and fruit theft) also provides in-depth insight into the living conditions in the early modern cosmos of the peasant community. The work is supplemented by an edition of several selected village ordinances.