honey, I can count. there are 105 references & 142 works cited. there are approximately 15-20 works by historians. but what do I know as a medieval historian? https://twitter.com/Scholars_Stage/status/1192899367591538688 …
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Replying to @prof_gabriele @OutlawHistory
Seriously great question! What do you know as a medieval historian? Specifically how was seed stored at harvest and then distributed for planting? Were there traveling seed merchants or was it more like a local municipal infrastructure setup? Been wanting to know this for years.
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If you google medieval grain storage I suspect you'll get some info. There's stuff out there. As for seed merchants, usually merchants were diversified with what they brought with them, and I don't have inventory stuff on hand, but grains were usually local if I recall.
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Replying to @AdmiralHip @prof_gabriele
Ive done that but the research seems to be focused on the building technologies of granaries in various places or debates over the amount stored for consumption (a winter vs supplies for years). The question Im asking is more about seed for planting and the ppl involved. 1/3
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What I’m trying to answer is who collected and stored seed for planting, and who determined how much went where? If that was left to farmers themselves how did that work when they didn’t own the land they were planting on? Was there any governance at all? 2/3
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Roman sources wrote of the Egyptian efficiency in planting distribution. Calculated tables where a family of X members, on a farm of Y size, in the so and so region, will produce Z amount. Seed was distributed based on what the state expected. Did ME landowners just not care? 3/3
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Replying to @PredictiveHext @prof_gabriele
Well there wasn't a centralised state, and as far as I know we don't have tables for grain distribution but I might be wrong. I don't study agri so I don't know much about it.
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Replying to @AdmiralHip @prof_gabriele
Well if the wealth owned the land, the wealthy did the writing, and none of them bothered to write about it I guess that answer my question on if they cared or not... "Let the peasants figure it out " seems to be the answer to my question about bureaucratic oversight.
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Replying to @PredictiveHext @prof_gabriele
The clergy did the writing. Not your average landlord. And yes there are non-clergy writers in the vernacular but as far as I know, nothing about how seed was distributed. Again, I might be wrong. But I haven’t encountered them regardless. It’s not just wealthy/unwealthy.
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There was stuff about how on manors, indentured peasants had to give x y z to their lords after harvest. So I doubt it was just figured out by peasants, but what I’m saying is that we don’t have bureaucratic sources on it to my knowledge. Again, maybe we do. Not my area.
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Replying to @AdmiralHip @prof_gabriele
so focusing on manors instead of townships might be beneficial. thank you for taking the time to read all this.
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Replying to @PredictiveHext @prof_gabriele
Yes, because urbanization happened later, but generally things were handled locally on manors anyway.
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