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标题：Communities and sustainability in medieval and early modern Aragon, 1200-1600
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作者：Esther Pascua Echegaray
期刊名称：International Journal of the Commons
电子版ISSN：1875-0281
出版年度：2011
卷号：5
期号：2
页码：535-556
语种：English
出版社：Igitur, Utrecht Publishing and Archiving Services
摘要：This paper examines the case of sheep raising in Aragon from the thirteenth to the seventeenth century to explore the political dynamics and social criteria that rural communities used to manage their common land, and their role in larger economic and political frameworks. In the line of recent historiography about the commons, the research connects the strength of rural communities, institutional arrangements governing access to natural resources, and environmental efficiency. The hypothesis is that the “social reproduction” of the community was the aim that defined the collective action of strong and horizontal communities. They preserved their natural resources and defended large swathes of common land from foreigners. However, when these communities acted in a more complex system of transhumance within the framework of poorly articulated kingdoms, they would tend to predate others’ resources and keep others' commons open to their free access. The outcome was the existence of large, but very different, and contested, kinds of commons.
关键词：Medieval history, modern history, environmental history, political economy;Animal husbandry; Aragon; collective action; common land; confraternities; guilds; natural resources; pasture; rural communities; sheep; transhumance