Land and Credit Mortgages in the Medieval and Early Modern European Countryside /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Briggs, Chris (Editor), Zuijderduijn, Jaco (Editor)
Summary:XVIII, 339 p. 23 illus.
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Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
Edition:1st ed. 2018.
Series:Palgrave Studies in the History of Finance,
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66209-1
Format: Electronic Book
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction: mortgages and annuities in historical perspective
  • 2. Mortgages and the English peasantry c.1250-c.1350
  • 3. Mortgages raised by rural English copyhold tenants 1605-1735
  • 4. Mortgages and the Kentish yeoman in the seventeenth century
  • 5. Why the equity of redemption? 6. Credit and land: the Jews of Zaragoza 1383-1400
  • 7. Not only land: mortgage credit in central-northern Italy in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
  • 8. Rural credit markets in eighteenth-century France: contracts, guarantees and land
  • 9. The use of perpetual annuities in rural Brabant in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries
  • 10. Proactive peasants? The role of annuities in a late medieval communal society: the Campine area, Low Countries
  • 11. The other fundamental problem of exchange: mortgages, defaults, and debtor protection in sixteenth-century Holland
  • 12. Afterword: mortgages as a mediation between kin and capital. .