Der Rinderhandel im Hochstift Bamberg in der zweiten Hälfte des 18. Jahrhunderts

For the first time the study analyses comprehensively early modern cattle trade and points out the connection between economy and rule. The transfers provoked by environmental differences and seasonal cycles of usage were transacted particularly by jewish traders. Periodically lean oxes from the low mountain ranges were trated to the fertile valleys, where they were fattened and afterwards delivered into the cities with their growing consumption of meat. Farmers, butchers, traders and authorities struggled intensively for the organization of the trade. Demands for export restrictions got through only during price rise crisises. A discourse analysis proofs that authorities became more capable and willing of acting and how the discourse about trade policy began to be liberalized.