Service loan

As a service fiefdom is a fief of ministerials and appearing in the science of history from the "real" fief ( fief distinction). While in the "real fiefdom" the free fiefdom taker binds himself to his fiefdom giver of his own free will, in contrast to this, the service loan is handed over as a fiefdom to those who are already obligated to serve by birth (i.e. unfree). The actual legal structure of the service loan and its individual differentiation from the “real loan” are controversial in the historical scholarly debate.

literature

Jan Keupp: Ministry and feudal affairs. Comments on the question of service loans. In: Jürgen Dendorfer, Roman Deutinger (ed.): The feudal system in the high Middle Ages. Research constructs - source findings - relevance to interpretation. (Medieval research 34) Ostfildern 2010, pp. 347–366.

Individual evidence

^ Karl Bosl: Das ius minsterialium. Service law and feudal law in the German Middle Ages. In: Karl Bosl: early forms of society in medieval Europe. Munich 1964, pp. 277-325.
↑ August von Fürth: The Ministriale. Cologne 1836, p. 429
↑ on the scientific discourse with further evidence see Jan Keupp: Ministerialität und Lehnwesen. Comments on the question of service loans. In: Jürgen Dendorfer, Roman Deutinger (ed.): The feudal system in the high Middle Ages. Research constructs - source findings - relevance to interpretation. (Medieval research 34) Ostfildern 2010, pp. 347–366.

[1] Karl Bosl: Das ius minsterialium. Service law and feudal law in the German Middle Ages. In: Karl Bosl: early forms of society in medieval Europe. Munich 1964, pp. 277-325.

[2] August von Fürth: The Ministriale. Cologne 1836, p. 429

[3] the scientific discourse with further evidence see Jan Keupp: Ministerialität und Lehnwesen. Comments on the question of service loans. In: Jürgen Dendorfer, Roman Deutinger (ed.): The feudal system in the high Middle Ages. Research constructs - source findings - relevance to interpretation. (Medieval research 34) Ostfildern 2010, pp. 347–366.