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Legal Plunder : Households and Debt Collection in Late Medieval Europe /

As Europe began to grow rich during the Middle Ages, its wealth materialized in the well-made clothes, linens, and wares of ordinary households. Such items were indicators of one's station in life in a society accustomed to reading visible signs of rank. In a world without banking, household go...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Smail, Daniel Lord (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2016]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Money, Units of Measurement, and Calendars
  • Introduction
  • 1. The Values of Things
  • 2. Credit and Coin
  • 3. The Pursuit of Debt
  • 4. The Plunder
  • 5. Violence and Resistance
  • Epilogue
  • Notes
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index