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

By Chris Briggs (Editor), Jaco Zuijderduijn (Editor)
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By Chris Briggs (Editor), Jaco Zuijderduijn (Editor)
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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.

Historians have viewed the mortgage both positively and negatively: on the one hand, it provided borrowers with opportunities for investment in agriculture; but equally, it expo...

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