‎Elise M. Dermineur (ed)‎
‎Women and Credit in Pre-Industrial Europe‎

‎, Brepols, 2018 Hardback, xi + 364 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:14 b/w, 32 tables b/w., Language: English. ISBN 9782503570525.‎

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‎Summary 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. TABLE OF CONTENTS Acknowledgements Women and Credit in Pre-Industrial Europe: An Overview - ELISE M. DERMINEUR High Finance: Women and Staple Credit in England, 1353-1532 - RICHARD GODDARD Women, Attorneys and Credit in Late Medieval England - MATTHEW FRANK STEVENS Creditworthy Women and Town Courts in Late Medieval England - TERESA PHIPPS The Ages of Women and Men: Life Cycles, Family, and Investment in the Fifteenth-Century Low Countries - JACO ZUIJDERDUIJN Providing Security for Others: Swedish Women in Early Modern Credit Networks - MARIA GREN Women's Participation in Rural Copyhold Mortgages in Seventeenth-Century England - JULIET GAYTON Women, Credit, and Dowry in Early Modern Italy - JAMES E. SHAW Gold, Ink, and Tears: The Hazards of Credit and the Indebted Widow in Eighteenth-Century Germany - EVE ROSENHAFT Never-Married Women and Credit in Early Modern England - JUDITH M. SPICKSLEY Credit, Strategies, and Female Empowerment in Early Modern France - ELISE M. DERMINEUR Women and Money: Credit, Debt, and Status in the Eighteenth-Century London Court of Exchequer - MARGARET HUNT Women, Small Credit, and Community: Barcelona in the Eighteenth Century - MONTSERRAT CARBONELL-ESTELLER Women and Credit in the Area of Santiago de Compostela at the End of the Old Regime (1770-1805) - FRANCISCO CEBREIRO ARES Concluding Remarks - LAURENCE FONTAINE Index‎