杜能的经济圈境理论与中世纪英格兰领主经济

在中世纪英格兰经济史研究领域最近形成了一种商业化理论。他们以冯.杜能的经济圈境理论为基础,认为城市需求是促进乡村经济发展的决定性力量,距离城市越近,农业的商品化程度越高。但是,中世纪英格兰领主自营地经济的商品化与这种理论多有出入。这是因为中世纪英格兰的经济实际并不符合冯.杜能理论中隐含着的前提条件。商业化派将冯.杜能的理论用于研究中世纪经济存在时代错位的问题。

Von Thunem's Model and the Seigniorial Economy in Medieval England

Some scholars have put forward a theory of commercialization to interpret the economy of medieval England. They take Von Thunen's Model as a theoretical base,regard urban demand as a decisive force for the economic development of its surrounding rural regions,and argue that the nearer to a city,the more commercialized a rural region might have been. But in fact,the commercialization of seigniorial economy in medieval England was different from this model in many respects,because its economic reality was not...