Women and credit in pre-industrial Europe / edited by Elise M. Dermineur.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dermineur, Elise M., editor.

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Series:

Early European research ; 12.

Early European Research ; 12

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Credit.

Social aspects.

History.

Women in finance.

Europe.

Women in finance--Europe--History.

Credit--Social aspects--Europe--History.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

ix, 364 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Turnhout, Belgium : BREPOLS Publishers, [2018]

Summary:

Explores a variety of perspectives on women's participation and experiences in credit markets in early modern Europe. This collection of essays compares and discusses women's participation and experiences in credit markets in early modern Europe, and highlights the characteristics, common mechanisms, similarities, discrepancies, and differences across various regions in Europe in different time periods, and at all levels of society. The essays focus on the role of women as creditors and debtors (a topic largely ignored in traditional historiography), but also and above all on the development of their roles across time. Were women able to enter the credit market, and if so, how and in what proportion? What was then the meaning of their involvement in this market? What did their involvement mean for the community and for their household? Was credit a vector of female emancipation and empowerment? What were the changes that occurred for them in the transition to capitalism? These essays offer a variety of perspectives on women?s roles in the credit markets of early modern Europe in order to outline and answer these questions as well as analysing and exploring the nature of women, money, credit, and debt in a pre-industrial Europe.

Contents:

Women and Credit in Pre-Industrial Europe: An Overview p. 1 / Elise M. Dermineur

High Finance: Women and Staple Credit in England, 1353-1532 p. 19 / Richard Goddard

Women, Attorneys and Credit in Late Medieval England p. 45 / Matthew Frank Stevens

Creditworthy Women and Town Courts in Late Medieval England p. 73 / Teresa Phipps

The Ages of Women and Men: Life Cycles, Family, and Investment in the Fifteenth-Century Low Countries p. 95 / Jaco Zuijderduijn

Providing Security for Others: Swedish Women in Early Modern Credit Networks p. 121 / Maria Ågren

Women's Participation in Rural Copyhold Mortgages in Seventeenth-Century England p. 143 / Juliet Gayton

Women, Credit, and Dowry in Early Modern Italy p. 173 / James E. Shaw

Gold, Ink, and Tears: The Hazards of Credit and the Indebted Widow in Eighteenth-Century Germany p. 203 / Eve Rosenhaft

Never-Married Women and Credit in Early Modern England p. 227 / Judith M. Spicksley

Credit, Strategies, and Female Empowerment in Early Modern France p. 253 / Elise M. Dermineur

Women and Money: Credit, Debt, and Status in the Eighteenth-Century London Court of Exchequer p. 281 / Margaret Hunt

Women, Small Credit, and Community: Barcelona in the Eighteenth Century p. 301 / Montserrat Carbonell-Esteller

Women and Credit in the Area of Santiago de Compostela at the End of the Old Regime (1770-1805) p. 321 / Francisco Cebreiro Ares.

Notes:

Includes index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

2503570526

9782503570525

OCLC:

1049909357

Publisher Number:

99980819983