Saints and sinners -- Embracing Shylock -- Protestants, war, and capitalism -- The great experiment -- The new debt revolution -- Something old, something new -- Islam, interest, and microlending -- The consumer debt revolution -- Early interest rate tables and calculations

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Saints and Sinners -- Chapter 2 Embracing Shylock -- Chapter 3 Protestants, War, and Capitalism -- Chapter 4 The Great Experiment -- Chapter 5 The New Debt Revolution -- Chapter 6 Something Old, Something New -- Chapter 7...

Preface -- Introduction -- Before bankruptcy : conflict solution strategies of upper German / Mechthild Isenmann -- Trading companies in the fifteenth and "long" sixteenth centuries / Wolfgang Forster -- Failed memoria : rights of patronage and of burial in bankruptcy / Dave De ruysscher -- The...