Reaccions senyorials a la crisi agrària a Catalunya, a la Baixa Edat Mitjana: els remences

Abstract

This piece of work analyses the impact of the mortality, the amount of abandoned farmhouses derived from it and the immediate reactions by the lords in order to maintain their farmhouses inhabited, consisting in reducing the free movement of the farmers.
The adaptation of a type of contract to the new circumstances and particularly favouring the lords; the return of some farmhouses due, on one hand to impossibility to face the burden associated to the contract, and on the other hand, to the improductivity of the land; and the need of selling the farmhouses to pay taxes and charges to the lord: are different evidences of the crises.
In the last part of this study, a first global analyses has been made based on geographical particularities and different attitudes to the crises by different lords.