Land and credit : mortgages in the medieval and early modern European countryside / Chris Briggs, Jaco Zuijderduijn, editors.
This volume investigates the use of mortgages in the European countryside between the thirteenth and eighteenth centuries. A mortgage allowed a loan to be secured with land or other property, and the practice has been linked to the transformation of the agrarian economy that paved the way for modern...
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Palgrave Macmillan,
[2018]
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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.