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Die Musikhandschriften der Benediktiner-Abtei Ottobeuren : thematischer Katalog
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ISBN: 3873280469 Year: 1986 Publisher: München Henle

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Studien zur Stuckausstattung im frühen 18. Jahrhundert : Modi und ihre Funktion in der Herrschaftsarchitektur am Beispiel Ottobeuren
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ISBN: 3422007989 Year: 1987 Publisher: München Deutscher Kunstverl.

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Ottobeuren : Kloster und Kirche
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ISBN: 3795405025 9783795405021 Year: 1971 Volume: 2 Publisher: München ; Zürich : Verlag Schnell & Steiner,

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Die mittelalterliche Handschriften in der Abtei Ottobeuren
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ISBN: 3447015705 9783447015707 Year: 1974 Publisher: Wiesbaden Harrassowitz

The peasants of Ottobeuren, 1487-1726: a rural society in early modern Europe
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ISBN: 0521834708 0521044588 0511214820 0511216610 0511315392 051149694X 1280540214 0511211244 0511213018 1107149584 9780511211249 9780521834704 9780511216619 9780511213014 9780511214820 9780511496943 9786610540211 6610540217 9781107149588 9781280540219 9780511315398 9780521044585 Year: 2004 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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The Peasants of Ottobeuren offers an interesting perspective on one of the enduring problems of early modern European history: the possibilities for economic growth and social change in rural society. Based on the voluminous records of the Swabian Benedictine monastery of Ottobeuren, this study underscores the limitations of the traditional narrative of a sixteenth-century boom which foundered on the productive rigidities of the peasant economy and then degenerated into social crisis in the seventeenth century. Population growth did strain resources at Ottobeuren, but the peasantry continued to produce substantial agricultural surplus. More importantly, peasants reacted to demographic pressure by deepening their involvement in land and credit markets, and more widely and aggressively marketing the fruits of their labour. Marriage and inheritance underwent a similar process of commercialization which made heavy demands on the peasantry, but which maintained a degree of social stability through the devastations of war, plague and famine.

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