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

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Briggs, Chris (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Zuijderduijn, Jaco (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2018.
• Σειρά: Palgrave Studies in the History of Finance,
• Θέματα: 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...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 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. .