La reconstruction économique des prieurés victorins après les crises de la fin du Moyen Âge (mi xve-mi xvie siècles)

Abstract

Saint Victor, the abbey of regular canons founded in 1113 in Paris, created sixteen priories in the Paris basin in the 12th and 13th centuries in order to minister to its parishes and administrate its temporal holdings. Starting in 1340, the crises that mark the end of the Middle Ages did not spare these small dependencies, maintained by a handful of brethren burdened with many responsibilities. Beginning in 1460 a full renovation was undertaken in all domains, thanks to the particularly active priors who refurbished their establishments and adapted life in the priory to the new context of the late 15th and early 16th century. This article intends, with the help of a very well preserved corpus of documents, to analyse how regular canons in the rural milieu adapted during the crises and activated networks of solidarity in response to pressing needs. Furthermore, the period of renovation was also a moment of transition, giving birth to new methods of management that were perpetuated thereafter.