Early modern debts : 1550-1700 / Laura Kolb, George Oppitz-Trotman, editors.

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Book

Contributor:

Kolb, Laura, editor.

Oppitz-Trotman, George, editor.

ProQuest ebook central.

Series:

Palgrave studies in literature, culture and economics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Debt--Europe--History.

Debt.

Credit--Europe--History.

Credit.

Debt--Social aspects.

Debt in literature.

Literature and society.

History.

Europe.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 416 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour).

Place of Publication:

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2020]

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text file

Contents:

1. Chapter 1: Introduction

Laura Kolb and George Oppitz-Trotman 1.1 Debt Connects 1.2 Economies of Obligation, Then and Now 1.3 Expanding the Horizons of Early Modern Debts Part One: Family, household, community 2. Chapter 2: Debt and Doorways

Lorna Hutson 2.1 Everyone is afraid of giving credit (Metuont credere omnes) 2.2 'Batti quell'uscio'

'Pound on this door' (La Lena, 4.3.999) 2.3 Doors and Debts in Ariosto's La Lena and Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors 3. Chapter 3: Masters as Debtors of their Servants in Early Modern Brandenburg and Saxony

Sebastian Kühn 3.1 Introduction 3.2 The Uncertain Nature of Servants' Wages 3.3 Financing the Noble Household: Daily Advances and Chains of Credit 3.4 Formal Credits 3.5 Transforming Debt into Gift 4. Chapter 4: Debt Culture in Shakespeare's Time

Lena Cowen Orlin 5. Chapter 5: A legal remedy against rent arrears: Landlords' privilege on furniture in 16th- and 17th-century France

Nga Bellis-Phan 5.1 Introduction 5.2 Dealing with unpaid rent: a public order preoccupation 5.3 An exceptional privilege consolidated by customary law 5.4 Effectiveness in execution: a strong privilege challenged by unavoidable difficulties 5.5 Conclusion Part Two: Debt's Networks 6. Chapter 6: Crafting the Hierarchy of Debts: The Example of Antwerp (15th-16th Centuries)

Dave De ruysscher 6.1 Introduction 6.2 The Relevance of Ranking Debts 6.3 Antwerp Rules on Debt in the Fifteenth Century 6.4 Hesitations on the Dowry and Bills Obligatory 6.5 Conclusion 7. Chapter 7: Debt, Trust and Reputation in Early Modern Armenian Merchant Networks

Alexandr Osipian 7.1 Introduction 7.2 Trust, Credit, and Trading Diasporas 7.3 Credit and Networks of Reputation 7.4 Public Discourse on Commerce, Luxury and Armenian Trading Diasporas 7.5 Legal Exceptions from Debt Repayment 7.6 Debt Collection and the Church Agency 7.7 A Credit History between Poland and India: Responsibility, Surety and Solidarity 7.8 Reputation, Defamation, and Moral Pressure 7.9 Conclusion 8. Chapter 8: How to Deal with Obligations? Contentious Debts and the Parere of the Handelsvorstand in Early Modern Nürnberg

Christof Jeggle 8.1 Introduction 8.2 Merchants and their Obligations 8.3 Establishing Commercial Jurisdiction in Nürnberg 8.4 Establishing the Parere as an Element of Commercial Jurisdiction and their Reception 8.5 The Parere as a Component of Commercial Jurisdiction 8.6 Narratives of Obligation 8.7 Conclusion 9. Chapter 9: Capillary Obligations: Fletcher's Island Princess and the Global Debts of the East India Company

Benjamin D. VanWagoner 9.1 A Company of Debtors 9.2 Carceral Debt in The Island Princess 9.3 Capillary Obligations Part Three: The Language and Logic of Debt 10. Chapter 10: Hypallactic Debt Management: The Rhetoric of Exchange in Wyatt and Shakespeare

Andrew Zurcher 10.1 Debt, grief, and incoherence in Wyatt's 'The piller pearisht' 10.2 Misgivings and mistakings in Shakespeare's Sonnet 87 10.3 Debt, hypallage, and the double-take in Cymbeline, King of Britain 10.4 The Winter's Tale: Consideration and the Hypallactic Changeling 11. Chapter 11: Caroline Debt: Shakespeare to Shirley

John Kerrigan 12. Chapter 12: Debt Letters: Epistolary Economies in Early Modern England

Laura Kolb 12.1 Introduction 12.2 Business Letters and Familiar Letters 12.3 Entertainment and Utility 12.4 Conclusion: Beyond Manuals 13. Chapter 13: Debt and Paradox in the Early Modern Period

Alexander Douglas 13.1 Introduction 13.2 Is It Good to Be in Debt? 13.3 Can a Borrower Bind Herself? 13.4 Is Usury Justified? 13.5 Conclusion Part Four: The Indebted Self 14. Self-Love and the Transformation of Obligation to Self-Control in Early Modern British Society

Craig Muldrew .

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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