It has been common to view the Icelandic economy either from the perspective of the individual farm in terms of its productivity or at the national scale in terms of trade and the role of imports/exports. Given the fact that the economy was largely a tenant-based system with a small number of landowners, there is an important middle ground between the household economics of individual farms and the state-sanctioned trade structures that needs to be explored. The objective of this paper is to examine this middle ground and the way the economy was structured in relation to property ownership and tenancy using the case study of the bishopric of Skálholt during the 17th and 18th centuries. Adopting a modified system of provision approach, three scales of analysis are adopted: the settlement itself, the immediate environs and finally the wider regional property network. Tracing the connections outward at successive scales reveals the complex nature of the economic infrastructure behind one of the largest landowners in Iceland at this time.

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主教经济学

从单个农场的生产力角度或从贸易和进出口作用的国家规模来看冰岛经济是很常见的。鉴于经济主要是拥有少数土地所有者的租户系统，因此在个体农场的家庭经济与需要探索的国家批准的贸易结构之间存在重要的中间地带。本文的目的是通过对 17 和 18 世纪 Skálholt 主教的案例研究，研究这一中间立场以及与财产所有权和租赁相关的经济结构方式。采用修改后的供应系统方法，采用了三种分析尺度：定居点本身、近邻，最后是更广泛的区域财产网络。在连续规模上向外追踪这些联系，揭示了此时冰岛最大的土地所有者之一背后的经济基础设施的复杂性。