Instructions and regulations of the Klosterneuburg manor

The edition collects the early modern instructions and orders of the manorial administration of the Augustinian monastery Klosterneuburg. Although in the early modern period, due to the lack of subordinate authorities of the state and the lands, the manorial estates quantitatively covered the most extensive part of the public administration, the state of research on this topic has been insufficient to date. However, the breadth of the subject matter makes the edited sources suitable not only for research into the administration of the manors in the narrower sense, but also for questions concerning the legal, social, and economic "life-world" of the subservient population in the early modern period. The texts deal, among other things, with the fields of activity of the monastery officials and the various organizational units, agriculture and forestry including viticulture, the acting of the monastery as an authority and its relations with the subjects, various civil law matters such as the land register, the monastery hospital, the monastery pharmacy, transport, crafts, the monastery`s food supply and much more. The texts are indexed by means of a register of places, a register of persons and a subject index. In addition, the volume has an extensive glossary, which can also be used as an aid in dealing with manorial sources beyond the edition. The text of the edition is preceded by an introduction with an overview of the landed property of Klosterneuburg Abbey and their administration as well as an introduction to the edited sources. The volume is published as vol. 27 in the best-known Austrian series of legal historical sources, the Fontes Rerum Ausriacarum, 3rd section: Fontes Iuris.