: mortgage credit in central-northern Italy in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries -- 8. Rural credit markets in 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 …

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 … variety of forms that the mortgage took, and show how an intricate balance was struck between the interests of the borrower …