Fiscal repartitions for the Duchy of Brabant (1383-1572)

This dataset contains a number of files containing subsidies (<em>bede</em> or <em>aide</em>) for the Duchy of Brabant, starting from 1383. The dataset is linked to the GIS dataset <a href="https://hdl.handle.net/10622/PGFYTM" target="_blank">Historical Atlas of the Low Countries (1350-1800)</a>.
<br><br>The 1383/1385 data was collected and digitised with the great help of Bastiaan van den Akker, who worked in 2018/19 as an intern at the International Institute of Social History and, as part of the NWO-funded project 'Imagining a Territory (led by Dr. Mario Damen), at the University of Amsterdam.<br>
The data on the 100th penny (1569-1572) comes from P. Stabel and F. Vermeylen, <em>Het fiscale vermogen in Brabant, Vlaanderen en de heerlijkheid Mechelen. De Honderdste Penning van de hertog van Alva (1569-1572)</em>. Académie royale de Belgique. Commission royale d’histoire. Publications gr. in-8 (Bruxelles: Académie Royale de Belgique 1997). This data (currently not made open access) was digitised and linked to the GIS codes by us.
<br><br>The methodology behind these files is described in A.E. Oostindiër and R.J. Stapel, 'Demographic Shifts and the Politics of Taxation in the Making of Fifteenth-Century Brabant', in: M.J.M. Damen and K. Overlaet eds., <em>Constructing and Representing Territory in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe</em> (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press), which is currently under review.<br>
The files in the folder "summary" refer to data files prepared for further analysis, by disaggregating counts of combined areas using the disaggregated hearth censuses made available <a href="https://hdl.handle.net/10622/YGRTHJ" target="_blank">here</a>. The hearth censuses were disaggregated using known ratios of other years, by interpolating missing values using nearest-neighbour-analysis of growth rates, and by creating a consistent time series by relating each figure to a predefined spatial part of the duchy which remains fixed.<br><br>For users not familiar with creating spatial joins in GIS, we would like refer to <a href="https://hdl.handle.net/10622/UOKBYL" target="_blank">this related dataset</a>. It contains a number of specially prepared GIS layers for the Duchy of Brabant, that store some of the data available below.