g a b r i e l a b j a r n e l a r s s o n 274 how they changed for the peasantry in Jämtland and the aristocracy in Finnveden, during the period 1300-1500.2 Historians and economic historians in theWest discussed, above all in the 1970s, how commercialised or even how“capitalistic” the medieval markets were (see Chapter 1). Since 1999, new investigations into medieval land markets have been carried out within the European project “The Land Market in Medieval Western Europe”. The project published its first large volume on dowries in different western European countries in 2002.The second volume, which dealt with sales, came out in2005.The researchers participating in the project endeavour to study the medieval markets from their own conditions.This, first and foremost, has meant that they have assumed the people in these societies, to a larger extent than on today’s modern markets, had personal bonds with one another and that this limited the conditions for a free market in several ways. It is these limitations that are studied in the project.The various legal acquisitions could have more - or less - limitations, depending on the transaction in question. There could, for the in relation to gifts, exchanges, purchases and pledges in order to try and see what the medieval markets were like and I market re lat ions and pe r sonal re lat ionshi p s Legal acquisition, land markets and monetisation1 n th i s i nve st i gat i on I have examined legal acquisition Part v i i 1 Translated by Jane Stoll. 2 Jämtland was, at that time, under the rule of the Norwegian king but fell under the Swedish archdiocese of Uppsala. Finnveden is situated in the very south of medieval Sweden.
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