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integr ated peasant economy in medieval slovenia: a pr eliminary study
But not even these new arrangements could reverse the ongoing growth
in peasant trade. Already in the 1520s, the circumstances compelled sei-
gniors and towns in Carniola to resume negotiations and revise the treaty
of 1492 (Žontar 1956–57, 25ff.). According to the statement of burgers from
approximately the same time, peasant trade in Carniola reached the great-
est scale among all Habsburg hereditary lands (Gestrin 1965, 42).
2. Some examples
2.1 Sheep trade from Upper Carniola to Friuli
The report on the dispute between the seigniory of Radovljica and the
steward of nearby Bled, Hartmann Kraig, from the end of the 15th centu-
ry contains an account of the local peasant trade in the direction of Bovec,
Tolmin and Cividale. The peasants of Radovljica complained to the empe-
ror that Kraig prevented them from transporting sheep to Italy using their
usual route by forcing them to travel across the wilderness (rocky alpine
terrain), where many animals got killed. In his answer Kraig explained that
the peasants drove more than 1000 heads of rams through the valley of Bo-
hinj during the best grazing time and devastated the grasslands of local te-
nants (Kaspret 1889, 77, 98–9, 121–2).
Map 3.2: Directions of sheep trade from Upper Carniola to Friuli
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But not even these new arrangements could reverse the ongoing growth
in peasant trade. Already in the 1520s, the circumstances compelled sei-
gniors and towns in Carniola to resume negotiations and revise the treaty
of 1492 (Žontar 1956–57, 25ff.). According to the statement of burgers from
approximately the same time, peasant trade in Carniola reached the great-
est scale among all Habsburg hereditary lands (Gestrin 1965, 42).
2. Some examples
2.1 Sheep trade from Upper Carniola to Friuli
The report on the dispute between the seigniory of Radovljica and the
steward of nearby Bled, Hartmann Kraig, from the end of the 15th centu-
ry contains an account of the local peasant trade in the direction of Bovec,
Tolmin and Cividale. The peasants of Radovljica complained to the empe-
ror that Kraig prevented them from transporting sheep to Italy using their
usual route by forcing them to travel across the wilderness (rocky alpine
terrain), where many animals got killed. In his answer Kraig explained that
the peasants drove more than 1000 heads of rams through the valley of Bo-
hinj during the best grazing time and devastated the grasslands of local te-
nants (Kaspret 1889, 77, 98–9, 121–2).
Map 3.2: Directions of sheep trade from Upper Carniola to Friuli
87
