-- Introduction -- The interest-bearing debt: conceptual framework -- Theory of interest -- Interest-bearing debt in ancient …

Early Modern Debts: 1550-1700 makes an important contribution to the history of debt and credit in Europe, creating new … transnational and interdisciplinary perspectives on problems of debt, credit, trust, interest, and investment in early modern …; institutional history; colonialism; personhood; interiority; rhetorical invention; amicable language; ethnicity and credit …

influence of Austria and Germany. It focuses on the role of loans and debts in medieval and early modern society, credit markets … in these countries, the mechanism of lending and borrowing, forms of credit, availability of loans, frequency of credits … them. The research presented in the book is based on a wide range of resources including credit contracts and agreements …