Translations:Manfred Klett: Von der Agrartechnologie zur Landbaukunst/218/en

goes without saying that the Roman, the written law was increasingly undermining this lived sense of right on the part of monasteries, landed proprietors, and aspiring cities. Against the background of the spiritual-cultural life and rights-life growing out of the folk heritage, the economic life took shape instinctively in associations. The village-organisms grouped themselves at such a distance from the central market that the carters could travel there and back in a single day. The people in the villages stood in such an economic relationship with one another and with the central market that the exchange of goods covered needs at prices that secured the livelihood of peasant and craftsman families until the same product could be brought forth once again.