TY  - CHAP
U1  - Buchbeitrag
A1  - Regnath, R. Johanna
T1  - Schweinemast und Schweinezehnt im Mittelalter
T2  - Das mittelalterliche Hausschwein : Forschungsstand, Perspektiven, Potenziale
N2  - Throughout the Middle Ages and well into the early
modern period domestic pigs were driven into the
forest in autumn to fatten them with acorns and
beechnuts. During the rest of the year, they mostly
had to look after themselves for food from waste
and in the pastures. The animals were more like
wild boars than modern pigs. Only a small part
of the mast rights was sold freely. Far more often
there were a multitude of precise regulations for
autumn fattening "according to old custom" as to
who was allowed to bring how many animals into
which forests at what price. The unfree farmers
had the right to drive their pigs into the forests
of their noble or clerical masters, some of them
even tax-free. These pigs were a central part of
the subsistence economy, as they constituted a
reliable source of food in winter with relatively little
effort and regardless of the success of the grain
harvest.
lt was based on the concept of the "Notdurft", the
idea that every household had the right to receive
the supplies necessary for a lifestyle befitting one's
rank - but nothing more. These rules reflected the
social structures: interdependencies within the
framework of the manorial system and an accepted
social inequality that was softened and
KW  - Schweinemast
KW  - Schwein
KW  - Waldweide
KW  - Mittelalter
Y1  - 2020
UN  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:31-opus-181878
U6  - https://doi.org/10.57962/regionalia-18187
DO  - https://doi.org/10.57962/regionalia-18187
N1  - Der Titel "Das mittelalterliche Hausschwein : Forschungsstand, Perspektiven, Potenziale / herausgegeben von Claus Kropp in Verbindung mit den Staatlichen Schlössern und Gärten Hessen ; Redaktion: Claus Kropp M. A., Tatjana Becue M. A." (ISBN 978-3-96184-020-5) ist erschienen als "Laureshamensia. Sonderausgabe ; 1.2020"
SP  - 82
EP  - 97
PB  - [Staatliche Schlösser und Gärten Hessen]
CY  - [Bad Homburg v. Höhe]
ER  -