 | Peasant Classes: The Bureaucratization of Property and Family Relations Under Early Habsburg Absolutism, 1511-1636 Subjects: Peasantry -- Austria -- History; Land tenure -- Austria -- History; Social classes -- Austria -- History; Households -- Austria -- History; Bureaucracy -- Austria -- History; Austria -- Rural conditions; Focusing on peasant family life in Upper Austria, this study moves beyond generalizations about the growth of the modern state to ask what social relations existed in the early modern period and how they worked. |
