Before banks : the making of credit and debt in preindustrial France /
This innovative work delves into the world of ordinary early modern women and men and their relationship with credit and debt. Elise Dermineur focuses on the rural seigneuries of Delle and Florimont in the south of Alsace, where rich archival documents allow for a fine cross-analysis of credit trans...
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2025.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- The setting: mutual arrangements in small communities in the south of Alsace 1650
- 1790
- Peer-to-peer lending in non-intermediated credit markets
- Intermediated credit: notarial contracts
- Women and credit
- Insolvency and default
- The growing institutionalization of credit
- Epilogue: the community of advantage.