The English village community, examined in its relations to the manorial and tribal systems and to the common or open field system of husbandry; an essay in economic history . of the Abbeysof Fulda,^ Corvey,® St. Gall,* Prising,^ Wizenburg,Lorsch, and in other early records, ending in heim inthe various districts of Germany. The result is re-markable. It shows that these heims were mostnumerous in what was once the Eoman province ofGermania Prima, on the left bank of the upper Ehine,the present Elsass, and on both sides of the Ehinearound Mayence—districts conquered by the Prankishand Alamanni
The English village community, examined in its relations to the manorial and tribal systems and to the common or open field system of husbandry; an essay in economic history . of the Abbeysof Fulda,^ Corvey,® St. Gall,* Prising,^ Wizenburg,Lorsch, and in other early records, ending in heim inthe various districts of Germany. The result is re-markable. It shows that these heims were mostnumerous in what was once the Eoman province ofGermania Prima, on the left bank of the upper Ehine,the present Elsass, and on both sides of the Ehinearound Mayence—districts conquered by the Prankishand Alamannic tribes in the fifth century, but in-habited by Germans from the time of Tacitus, andperhaps of Caesar, and so districts in which Germanpopulations had come very early and continued longunder Eoman rule. In this district the heims rose in 97. Chartularium Sithiense, p. * Traditiones et AntiquitatesFuldemes. Dronke, Fulda, ]844. Traditiones Corbeienses. Wi-gand, 1843. * Urhundenhuoh der Abtd , 700-840. Wartmann, Mei- Zuiich, 1863. Historia Frisingensis,chelbeck, 1729. * TraditionesWizenburgenses. Spirse, 1842. Codex Laureshamensis Diplo-matious, The Ham, Eeim, and Villa. 257 number to 80 per cent, of the places mentioned in y^^j]the charters. •; There were many, but not so many, heims in thevalley of the Neckar; but everywhere (with smalllocal exceptions) they faded away in districts outsidethe Koman boundary, except in Frisia, where theproportion was large. Now, the question is, what do these heims repre-sent ? We have already said that they interchange hke Heimjmdthe Enghsh ham with the Latin villa. The dis- change.^tricts where they occur most thickly, where theyformed 80 per cent, of the names of places in thetime of the monastic grants, and which had formedfor several centuries the Eoman province of UpperGermany, shade off into districts which abounded withlocal names ending in villa. They did so a thousand years ago, and they do sonow. It is only
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