Editors:

Chris Briggs (Senior Lecturer in Medieval British Social and Economic History at the University of Cambridge)

Jaco Zuijderduijn (Senior Lecturer at the Department of Economic History at Lund University, Sweden)

Introduction

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.

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Date Published: February 2018

ISBN: 3030097633

Table of Contents

Front Matter

Pages i-xviii

Introduction: Mortgages and Annuities in Historical Perspective

Chris Briggs, Jaco Zuijderduijn

Pages 1-16

Mortgages and the English Peasantry c.1250–c.1350

Chris Briggs

Pages 17-45

Mortgages Raised by Rural English Copyhold Tenants 1605–1735

Juliet Gayton

Pages 47-80

Mortgages and the Kentish Yeoman in the Seventeenth Century

Imogen Wedd

Pages 81-115

Why the Equity of Redemption?

D. P. Waddilove

Pages 117-148

Credit and Land: The Jews of Zaragoza 1383–1400

Michael Schraer

Pages 149-179

Not Only Land: Mortgage Credit in Central-Northern Italy in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

Giuseppe De Luca, Marcella Lorenzini

Pages 181-204

Rural Credit Markets in Eighteenth-Century France: Contracts, Guarantees and Land

Elise M. Dermineur

Pages 205-231

The Use of Perpetual Annuities in Rural Brabant in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries

Michael Limberger, Nicolas De Vijlder

Pages 233-252

Proactive Peasants? The Role of Annuities in a Late Medieval Communal Society: The Campine Area, Low Countries

Eline Van Onacker

Pages 253-280

The Other Fundamental Problem of Exchange: Mortgages, Defaults and Debtor Protection inSixteenth-Century Holland

Jaco Zuijderduijn

Pages 281-307

Afterword: Mortgages as Mediation Between Kin and Capital

Craig Muldrew

Pages 309-325