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

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Briggs, Chris (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Zuijderduijn, Jaco (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Finance,
• Subjects: Finance-History.; Investment banking.; Securities.; Europe-History-476-1492.; Europe-History-1492-.; Financial History.; Investments and Securities.; History of Medieval Europe.; History of Early Modern Europe.

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...