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...

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. .