tagarina_croplands: Excerpt from Sella's XVIII century croplands inventory

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Description

Sella is a small village to the north of Alicante province, in southeastern Spain. Carried out in 1726, Sella's croplands inventory is an example of the so called 'capbreus', the ancient land registries that were periodically undertaken in settlements within the Crown of Aragon beginning in late Middle Ages and all along the early modern period. These data are an excerpt of the Capbreu of Sella that includes all records concerning plots located within the Valley of Tagarina, a traditional farming area to the north-east of the village.

Usage

tagarina_croplands

Format

A survey object that encapsulates a data frame which is accessible through get_records.survey method. The Capbreu of Sella has been ported to a YAML structured text document which conveys the Landholder-Plot-Neighbour (LPN) schema and can be read using settle's LPNschema_reader. The output is a data frame organized as a hyper-table or wide-column store which holds 460 records and 6 fields:

LandholderId

Peasant's integer identifier

Landholder

Peasant's name transcription

VarCategory

Column family (Aggregations, Landmetrics or Limits)

Variable

Column name whose value is stored in the Value field (Area = Plot area; Level_N = Place name according to level N of spatial aggregation; Neighbour = Neighbouring peasant's name; Natural = Topographical feature this plot limits with; Anthropic = Road or irrigation infrastructure this plot limits with; Administrative = Neighbouring settlement's name)

Plot

Plot identifier

Value

Corresponding value of the column which this record refers to

Author(s)

Pablo Gimenez Font (for the transcription and YAML source document)

Source

Province of Alicante Historical Archive

quommit/settle documentation built on May 26, 2019, 1:31 p.m.