Legal Plunder - Households and Debt Collection in Late Medieval Europe

Informationen zum Autor Daniel Lord Smail is Professor of History at Harvard University. Klappentext As a Europe grew rich in the Middle Ages, the well-made clothes, linens, and wares of households often substituted for hard currency. Pawnbrokers kept goods in circulation, and sergeants of the law marched into debtors¿ homes to seize belongings equal in value to debts owed. David Smail describes a material world on the cusp of modern capitalism. Zusammenfassung As a Europe grew rich in the Middle Ages, the well-made clothes, linens, and wares of households often substituted for hard currency. Pawnbrokers kept goods in circulation, and sergeants of the law marched into debtors’ homes to seize belongings equal in value to debts owed. David Smail describes a material world on the cusp of modern capitalism.

Product details

• Authors: Daniel Lord Smail, Smail Daniel Lord
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2016
• EAN: 9780674737280
• ISBN: 978-0-674-73728-0
• No. of pages: 344
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Middle Ages; Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; Europa, Spätmittelalter, 1000 bis 1500 nach Christus, Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte, Europe, European History, Europäische Geschichte: Mittelalter, HISTORY / Europe / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History, HISTORY / Social History, Alltagskultur, Social & cultural history, Mittelalter / Spätmittelalter, Alltag - Alltagsgeschichte, Englische Bücher / Geschichte, Kulturgeschichte, Zeitgeschichte, Kultur / Alltagskultur, HISTORY / Medieval, Medieval History, c 1000 CE to c 1500, Social and cultural history, c 500 to c 1000 CE, European history: medieval period, middle ages, HISTORY / Europe / Medieval