Attractive marriage partners? Tenant widows and remarriages in western Norway in the seventeenth and eighteenth century

Scandinavian Journal of History

Volumn 29, Issue 3-4, 2004, Pages 225-239

  Myking, John Ragnar ^a  

^a BERGEN UNIVERSITY COLLEGE   (Norway)

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EID: 37049034962     PISSN: 03468755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03468750410008761     Document Type: Article

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4. Former crown land was often sold at prices that would induce buyers to take expensive loans. Entrance fees and rents on tenant holdings on the other hand were rather moderate and from the 16th (rents) and the end of the 17th century (entrance fees) regulated by law. Although increasing demands for land in the 18th century saw illegally high entrance fees, buying land does not seem to have been economically sounder than renting a tenant holding. For a closer discussion of this problem see J. R. Myking, Herre over andre si jord? Norske leiglendingsvilkår i europeisk lys 1500-1800. Dr. art. dissertation. Department of History, University of Bergen (2002), pp. 181-187.
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