„… k té živnosti gruntovní vinice náleží“. Příspěvek k problematice poddanského vinařství na panství Mělník

Abstract

The presented study focuses on the issue of wine growing in the environment of the serfsʼ farmingon the Mělník estate in Early Modern times. The main objective of the paper, which is primarilybased on an analysis of land and vineyard registers, was to characterise the structure and the rangeof the profits from wine growing. Research has shown that wine revenues, which were of great importanceto some local growers, were of a dual type. The basis formed the vineyards as integral constituentsof the economy of serfs. Their expansion was far from being negligible in the conditions ofan estate, and accounted for almost a quarter of the serfsʼ domains. The second type of profits fromserfsʼ wine growing was known as perkrecht, which the subjects did not manage although it was thesource of regular wages.