Abstract EN:

The archives from the bishops of valence and die have kept an entirety of accounts covering the period from 1371 to 1500 and concerning four villages of the die area : aouste, bourdeaux, valdrome and joncheres to which we can add some older accounts emanating from the count of valentinois (1334-1353). A concise description of the domain is given which enables to follow its destiny through the crises by the end of the middle-ages. Confronted with the difficulties of the time it managed to avoid the decrease of income and increase of expenses, subsequent to war, to end up in a disaster. Important payements in kind allowed the manor to palliate the payements in cash. After 1470, the situation was quickly restored and the manorial rights could be preserved almost in their totality. Highly over-populated at the beginning of the fourteenth century the die area experienced an important fall in demography; the economy emerges altered with the progress of wheat and the rise of stock farming. A great many peasants see their standard of living bettering. But the beginning of the sixteenth century is the starting point of a distortion between an archaic remaining manor and an increasing population whereas deductions are maintained in their integrality.