Early Modern Debts: 1550–1700 [1st ed.] 9783030597689, 9783030597696

Early Modern Debts: 1550–1700 makes an important contribution to the history of debt and credit in Europe, creating new

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Early Modern Debts: 1550–1700 [1st ed.]
 9783030597689, 9783030597696

Table of contents :
Front Matter ....Pages i-xv
Introduction (Laura Kolb, George Oppitz-Trotman)....Pages 1-17
Front Matter ....Pages 19-20
Debt and Doorways in Renaissance Comedy (Lorna Hutson)....Pages 21-52
Masters as Debtors of Their Servants in Early Modern Brandenburg and Saxony (Sebastian Kühn)....Pages 53-82
Debt Culture in Shakespeare’s Time (Lena Cowen Orlin)....Pages 83-102
A Legal Remedy Against Rent Arrears: Landlords’ Privilege on Furniture in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century France (Nga Bellis-Phan)....Pages 103-127
Front Matter ....Pages 129-130
Crafting the Hierarchy of Debts: The Example of Antwerp (Fifteenth–Sixteenth Centuries) (Dave De ruysscher)....Pages 131-152
Debt, Trust and Reputation in Early Modern Armenian Merchant Networks (Alexandr Osipian)....Pages 153-180
How to Deal with Obligations? Contentious Debts and the Parere of the Handelsvorstand in Early Modern Nürnberg (Christof Jeggle)....Pages 181-207
Capillary Obligations: Fletcher’s Island Princess and the Global Debts of the East India Company (Benjamin D. VanWagoner)....Pages 209-231
Front Matter ....Pages 233-234
Hypallactic Debt Management: The Rhetoric of Exchange in Wyatt and Shakespeare (Andrew Zurcher)....Pages 235-269
Caroline Debt: Shakespeare to Shirley (John Kerrigan)....Pages 271-302
Debt Letters: Epistolary Economies in Early Modern England (Laura Kolb)....Pages 303-329
Debt and Paradox in the Early Modern Period (Alexander Douglas)....Pages 331-350
Front Matter ....Pages 351-351
Self-Love and the Transformation of Obligation to Self-Control in Early Modern British Society (Craig Muldrew)....Pages 353-401
Back Matter ....Pages 403-416

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