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From Subsistence to Property: Traces of a Fundamental Change in Early Modern Bavaria

Blickle, Renate

In: Central European History, 1992, vol. 25, no. 4, p. 377-385

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    Title
    • From Subsistence to Property: Traces of a Fundamental Change in Early Modern Bavaria
    Author
    • Blickle, Renate. Bern, Switzerland
    Document Type
    • Postprint
    Classification
    • Health
    OAI-PMH Identifier
    • oai:doc.rero.ch:303747
    Summary
    Subsistence and property. ”This paper looks at an enduring subject from a Central European perspective. It is an historiographical variation of an old matter of dispute: to whom do the goods of the world legitimately belong, to those who need them, or to those who possess them legally, but do not need them? In this paper "subsistence” stands for the legitimizing power of the idea of "need,” and "property” for justification through an appeal to freedom. In theory more than two thousand years ago the question was already answered in favor of the primacy of property