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Markgenossenschaft
Historiographical concept of medieval rural commons
Markgenossenschaft is a concept developed by nineteenth-century legal historians to describe what they took to be communities of free peasants in early Germanic societies who jointly exploited the land. The term was coined from marchenoten ("those entitled to use the mark"), which appears in sources from Westphalia around 1200, alongside the variants Marcgenoten and Markgenossen. The construct was shaped by Romantic ideas about the origins of Germanic society, but its existence as a primitive institution is no longer accepted by modern scholarship.2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0
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Markgenossenschaft is a concept developed by nineteenth-century legal historians to describe what they took to be communities of free peasants in early Germanic societies who jointly exploited the land. The term was coined from marchenoten ("those entitled to use the mark"), which appears in sources from Westphalia around 1200, alongside the variants Marcgenoten and Markgenossen. The construct was shaped by Romantic ideas about the origins of Germanic society, but its existence as a primitive institution is no longer accepted by modern scholarship.2
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