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dc.contributor.authorAndersson, Martin
dc.date.accessioned2023-06-05T12:12:00Z
dc.date.available2023-06-05T12:12:00Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/63203
dc.description.abstractServants were for a long time the dominant form of labour in Sweden. To serve, at a farm or at a manor, was ever since the thirteenth century the most common way to make a living, since poor people could by law be forced to accept work for a master. Service hence replaced thraldom in Sweden. In From slaves to servants, historian Martin Andersson explains how the regulations of the servants’ lives were gradually sharpened. Labourers had to become servants under the threats of punishment and forced conscription into the army. Wages were legally reduced, while other forms of making a living were blocked. The master’s right to use physical violence was increased, while the servant’s duty to obey was expanded. By the end of the sixteenth century, most farmhands and maids worked at manors or for the richest of the peasantry. They had consequently minimal chances of themselves becoming masters. Through studies of a rich material of regional law codes, court records, fine registers, royal letters and manuals for manor owners, the historian paints a rich picture of the daily lives of servants – a life formed by legal uncertainty, coercion, and poverty.en_US
dc.languageSwedishen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KC Economics::KCZ Economic historyen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH Historyen_US
dc.subject.otherSverige; 1500-talet; Medeltiden; Träldom; Legofolksinstitutionen; Tjänstefolk; Sixteenth century; Middle ages; Thraldom; Institution of service; Servants; Swedenen_US
dc.titleFrån trälar till tjänstefolken_US
dc.title.alternativeLegofolk i Sverige 1250–1600en_US
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.21525/kriterium.48en_US
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy7b034f4a-b816-4718-88ac-63b24c8e4b24en_US
oapen.relation.isbn9789189361584en_US
oapen.pages419en_US
oapen.place.publicationLunden_US


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