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

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 in Sixteenth-Century Holland  (Jaco Zuijderduijn)....Pages 281-307
 Afterword: Mortgages as Mediation Between Kin and Capital  (Craig Muldrew)....Pages 309-325
Back Matter ....Pages 327-339