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  title info:
    title: Land and Credit
    sub title: Mortgages in the Medieval and Early Modern European Countryside
  name:
    name part: Briggs, Chris.
    role:
      role term: editor.
    role:
      role term: edt
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      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt
  name:
    name part: Zuijderduijn, Jaco.
    role:
      role term: editor.
    role:
      role term: edt
    role:
      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2018
    edition: 1st ed. 2018.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XVIII, 339 p. 23 illus. online resource.
  abstract: 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 economic growth. Historians have viewed the mortgage both positively and negatively: on the one hand, it provided borrowers with opportunities for investment in agriculture; but equally, it exposed them to the risk of losing their mortgaged property. The case studies presented in this volume reveal the variety of forms that the mortgage took, and show how an intricate balance was struck between the interests of the borrower looking for funds, and those of the lender looking for security. It is argued that the character of mortgage law, and the nature of rights in land in operation in any given the place and period, determined the degree to which mortgages were employed. Over time, developments in these factors allowed increasing numbers of peasants to use mortgages more freely, and with a decreasing risk of expropriation. This volume will be appealing to academics and researchers interested in financial history, rural credit and debt, and the economic history of agrarian communities.
  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. .
  note: edited by Chris Briggs, Jaco Zuijderduijn.
  subject:
    topic: Finance-History
  subject:
    topic: Investment banking
  subject:
    topic: Securities
  subject:
    topic: Europe-History-476-1492
  subject:
    topic: Europe-History-1492-
  subject:
    topic: Financial History
  subject:
    topic: Investments and Securities
  subject:
    topic: History of Medieval Europe
  subject:
    topic: History of Early Modern Europe
  classification: HG171
  classification: 332.09
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Palgrave Studies in the History of Finance
  identifier: 9783319662091
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66209-1
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    record creation date: 180227
    record change date: 20191021212815.0
    record identifier: 978-3-319-66209-1