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Credit and Village Society in Fourteenth-century England
Chris Briggs
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Hardback. Credit transactions were a common and important feature of peasant society in the middle ages. This study of rural credit in medieval England uses the evidence of inter-peasant debt litigation to investigate the lenders and borrowers, the uses to which credit was put, and the effects of credit on social relationships. Series: British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship Monographs. Num Pages: 268 pages, black & white tables, figures. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3H; HBJD1; HBLH; KCZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 162 x 20. Weight in Grams: 558.
Exploring the role of credit is vital to understanding any economy. In the past two decades historians of many European regions have become increasingly aware that medieval credit, far from being the preserve of merchants, bankers, or monarchs, was actually of basic importance to the ordinary villagers who made up most of the population. This is the first study devoted to credit in rural England in the middle ages. Focusing in particular on seven well-documented villages, it examines in detail some of the many thousands of village credit transactions of this period, identifies the people who performed them, and ... Read more
Exploring the role of credit is vital to understanding any economy. In the past two decades historians of many European regions have become increasingly aware that medieval credit, far from being the preserve of merchants, bankers, or monarchs, was actually of basic importance to the ordinary villagers who made up most of the population. This is the first study devoted to credit in rural England in the middle ages. Focusing in particular on seven well-documented villages, it examines in detail some of the many thousands of village credit transactions of this period, identifies the people who performed them, and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
268
Condition
New
Series
British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship Monographs
Number of Pages
268
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780197264416
SKU
V9780197264416
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99-16
Reviews for Credit and Village Society in Fourteenth-century England
For the first time we have the publication of a monograph examining the organisation and supply of rural credit in later medieval England, and one all the richer for interpreting the evidence within the context of European historiography ... this book achieves what it was intended to do, and sets the whole subject of peasant indebtedness in England on a ... Read more