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Nicolussi-Köhler, Stephan (Ed.): Change and Transformation of Premodern Credit Markets: The Importance of Small-Scale Credits, Heidelberg: heiBOOKS, 2021. https://doi.org/10.11588/heibooks.593

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12/09/2021

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Stephan Nicolussi-Köhler (Ed.)

Change and Transformation of Premodern Credit Markets

The Importance of Small-Scale Credits

This book explores the development of credit markets to mobilize large amounts of capital in the medieval and early modern period. The everyday financial dealings of craftsmen, farmers and townsmen actually represent the credit transactions of almost the entire historical population and are therefore of special importance. The studies presented in this book focus on the small-scale credit dealings in different regions (England, Wales, Tirol, Northern Italy, Germany, Low Countries). The contributions in the book discuss how the financial needs of the people involved, and the transformation of institutions during the Middle Ages and early modern period, affected access to capital markets and the practice of money lending.

Stephan Köhler studied history in Vienna and Mannheim. He is a research assistant at the University of Innsbruck and conducts research on economic history issues, with a focus on the Alpine and Mediterranean regions. His current work is on pre-modern credit markets.

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Table of Contents
Pages
PDF
Frontmatter
Contents
Notes on Contributors
VII-IX
Stephan Nicolussi-Köhler
Introduction
1-21
Gilles Postel-Vinay
Change and Transformation of Premodern Credit Markets
The Importance of Small-Scale Credits
23-38
Matthew Frank Stevens
Colonisation and Credit in Medieval Wales
39-63
Sven Rabeler
Small Credit in a Small Town: Clerical Institutions and the Credit Market in Kaufbeuren in the Fifteenth Century
65-88
Stephan Nicolussi-Köhler
Between City and Countryside: Moneylending and Settling Debts in and around Meran (1388 – 1392)
89-132
So Nakaya
Credit Networks between City and Countryside in Late Medieval Lucca
133-156
Benjamin Hitz
Webs of Credit and Uses of Civil Justice. The Case of 15th-Century Basel
157-191
Marcella Lorenzini
The Other Side of Banking. Private Lending and the Role of Women in Early Modern Italy
193-213
David Kusman
High Finance, Banking and Small-Scale Moneylending: A New Trinity of Financial Functions for Lombards in the Late-Medieval Low Countries ?
215-249
Ulf Christian Ewert
Trading Networks, Credit, and Trust: The Hansards’ Capital Raising Revisited
251-274
Hannah Robb
Contract and Trust in Fifteenth-Century Church Courts
275-292
Tanja Skambraks
Strategies of Survival: Pawn-broking and Credit Relations in Rome and Perugia (15th and 16th centuries)
293-331

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