De voorgeboden en keuren van Sint-Annaland uit 1569: een inkijk in het zestiende-eeuwse dorpsleven in het graafschap Zeeland

The Police Regulations of Sint-Annaland from 1569: a Glimpse into Sixteenth-Century Village Life in the County of Zeeland

From the late Middle Ages onwards, many seigneuries in the Low Countries began compiling local law. One notable example is the compilation (Dutch: voorgeboden en keuren) of Sint-Annaland from 1569, a small village in the county of Zeeland. This contribution provides an edition and an analysis of these rules, preserved in three manuscripts. These rules offer valuable insights into the socio-economic daily life of this village in Zeeland. When integrated into a broader corpus from several seigneuries, such texts can illustrate aspects of late medieval and early modern village life in the Low Countries, an area of research that remains relatively underexplored by both legal scholars and historians.