Referensverket Det medeltida Sverige – en lägesrapport
| العنوان: | Referensverket Det medeltida Sverige – en lägesrapport |
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| المؤلفون: | Lovén, Christian |
| المصدر: | Bebyggelsehistorisk tidskrift. 77:85-96 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Medieval settlements, historical geography, economic history, rent rolls, charters, medieval Sweden, Swedish National Archives |
| الوصف: | Medieval Sweden (Det medeltida Sverige, DMS) is an ongoing historical research project that surveys the country’s settlements from the Middle Ages and 16th century until the 1560s. Since 2012, it has been managed by the Swedish National Archives. The project, which publishes its findings hundred by hundred and parish by parish, draws on two main archival sources. The first consists of Crown rent rolls (King Gustav Vasa’s cadasters), which register each farm in every province from c.1540 onwards. The rolls detail the tenants of the nobility and the Church, which makes them a unique source of material in Europe. However, coverage is patchy, and at least twenty years of rolls must be examined to obtain a complete picture. The second source comprises medieval charters, which usually record land transactions. The first volume of DMS appeared in 1972, following decades of project planning. Twenty four volumes have been published to date, mostly covering provinces along the East Coast (fig. 1). The digitisation of archives has simplified the task, and the publication rate has increased. The entire country, with the exception of the former Danish and Norwegian provinces, where early rent rolls are incomplete, should be covered in the next 25 years.The starting point of the present article is a paper published in 1962, ten years prior to the first volume of DMS, that detailed the planning work and original considerations. The 1962 paper is compared with the actual contents of the first volume. Over the years, the basic concept has remained unaltered, although additions and small changes have been made. Most notably, since 1984, parish maps showing settlements in and around 1550 have been included (figs 2 & 5). Details of prehistoric remains in the hundreds have come and gone, and the original ambition to summarise as much information as possible in table form has been curtailed. Details peripheral to land management, but yet of social or cultural interest have appeared in later volumes. Recurring problems include the identification of medieval vicarages and the definition of a “church village”.DMS, once completed, will be a first-rate resource for qualitative and quantitative research into economic, agricultural, demographic and social conditions in pre-Reformation Europe. Unfortunately Finland, where the same types of source material exist, has yet to start a sister project. |
| وصف الملف: | electronic |
| URL الوصول: | https://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-447271 https://uu.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:1573298/FULLTEXT01.pdf |
| قاعدة البيانات: | SwePub |
| تدمد: | 03492834 20023812 |
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