Resumen de Peasants’ Landholdings and Movement in the Frankish East (8th-9th Centuries)

Thomas Kohl

• The Carolingian economy has traditionally been studied from the perspective of large-scale landholdings. In past decades, scholarship has therefore stressed the importance of centralized dominance and dependency in Carolingian society.1 However, while large landholdings were certainly an important reality of Carolingian society in general and of the economy in particular, they are not the only relevant level for investigating the agrarian economy of this era.