OGILVIE, SHEILAGH; KÜPKER, MARKUS; MAEGRAITH, JANINE - In: The Journal of Economic History 72 (2012) 01, pp. 134-167
The “less-developed” interior of early modern Europe, especially the rural economy, is often regarded as financially comatose. This article investigates this view using a rich data set of marriage and death inventories for seventeenth-century Germany. It first analyzes the characteristics of...