Land and Credit

1. Introduction: Mortgages and Annuities in Historical Perspective
Chris Briggs, Jaco Zuijderduijn

2. Mortgages and the English Peasantry c.1250–c.1350
Chris Briggs

3. Mortgages Raised by Rural English Copyhold Tenants 1605–1735
Juliet Gayton

4. Mortgages and the Kentish Yeoman in the Seventeenth Century
Imogen Wedd

5. Why the Equity of Redemption?
D. P. Waddilove

6. Credit and Land: The Jews of Zaragoza 1383–1400
Michael Schraer

7. Not Only Land: Mortgage Credit in Central-Northern Italy in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
Giuseppe Luca, Marcella Lorenzini

8. Rural Credit Markets in Eighteenth-Century France: Contracts, Guarantees and Land
Elise M. Dermineur

9. The Use of Perpetual Annuities in Rural Brabant in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries
Michael Limberger, Nicolas De Vijlder

10. Proactive Peasants? The Role of Annuities in a Late Medieval Communal Society: The Campine Area, Low Countries
Eline Onacker

11. The Other Fundamental Problem of Exchange: Mortgages, Defaults and Debtor Protection in Sixteenth-Century Holland
Jaco Zuijderduijn

12. Afterword: Mortgages as Mediation Between Kin and Capital
Craig Muldrew

Keywords: Finance, Financial History, Investments and Securities, History of Medieval Europe, History of Early Modern Europe