The Vornedskab was a serfdom-like institution introduced in Denmark in the late 14th-century to ensure a working force for the landowners in a time period when the population had diminished after the Black Death in Denmark,[1] and the landowners wanted to prevent the remaining peasantry from achieving better conditions or leaving the countryside for the cities. It was abolished in 1702. In 1733, serfdom was reintroduced in Denmark under the new name Stavnsbånd.
^Fridlev Skrubbeltrang: Det danske Landbosamfund 1500-1800; Den danske historiske Forening 1978; ISBN 87-87462-09-5
The Vornedskab was a serfdom-like institution introduced in Denmark in the late 14th-century to ensure a working force for the landowners in a time period...
important domestic reform was the abolition in 1702 of the so-called vornedskab, a kind of serfdom which had applied to the peasants of Zealand since...
– Frederick IV Grand Chancellor – Conrad von Reventlow 21 February – Vornedskab is abolished on Zealand and Lolland-Falster (already abolished on Møn...
neighboring Denmark the nobility did succeed in introducing serfdom (Vornedskab). The Swedish nobility was however not to be so successful. The great...
Population losses in the decades which followed led to the establishment of Vornedskab, a system of serfdom. 22 July 1361 – Valdemar IV's army lands on Gotland's...
the Black Death resulted in the introduction of serfdom in Denmark, the Vornedskab, which was introduced after the Black Death. Harrison, Dick, Stora döden:...
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