Briggs, Chris (ed.); Zuijderduijn, C. Jaco (ed.) - International Workshop on Mortgages in the European … - 2018 - 1st edition 2018
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...