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.
Chris Briggs, PhD, is a Senior Lecturer in Medieval British Social and Economic History at the University of Cambridge, UK, and affiliated to Selwyn College, Cambridge. Dr Briggs is the author of a number of studies of credit and debt in the medieval economy, including Credit and village society in fourteenth century England (2009).
Jaco Zuijderduijn, PhD, is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Economic History at Lund University, Sweden. He publishes widely on the financial history of the later Middle Ages, with a particular focus on how individuals made use of financial markets. He is the author of Medieval capital markets. Markets for ‘renten’, state formation and private investment in Holland (1300-1550) (2009).
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