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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, MA :
Harvard University Press,
[2016]
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
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