Rural commercialisation in southern Germany, c.1200-c.1500: sources, problems and potential

This is a pre-print, peer-reviewed but not copy-edited version of a paper forthcoming in Mediaeval Studies in 2021. DO NOT CITE WITHOUT PERMISSION.The present paper is the result of a two-year Insight Development Grant (430-2015-01215) for the years 2015–17 funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of the Government of Canada, with some further work conducted as part of my current project, entitled ‘Rural Commercialisation in Southern Germany, c.1200–c.1440,’ funded by the same Council by means of an Insight Grant (435-2018-0283) for the years 2018 to 2023