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Legal Plunder: Households and Debt Collection in Late Medieval Europe

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Legal Plunder: Households and Debt Collection in Late Medieval Europe - Smail, Daniel Lord
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As a Europe grew rich in the Middle Ages, the well-made clothes, linens, and wares of households often substituted for hard currency. Pawnbrokers kept goods in circulation, and sergeants of the law marched into debtors' homes to seize belongings equal in value to debts owed. David Smail describes a material world on the cusp of modern capitalism.

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Legal Plunder: Households and Debt Collection in Late Medieval Europe 2016, Harvard University Press, Cambridge

ISBN-13: 9780674737280

Hardcover