Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xv, 416 Seiten)
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ISBN:
9783030597696
Series Statement:
Palgrave studies in literature, culture and economics
Content:
Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- List of Figures -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Debt Connects -- 1.2 Economies of Obligation, Then and Now -- 1.3 Expanding the Horizons of Early Modern Debts -- References -- Part I Family, Household, Community -- 2 Debt and Doorways in Renaissance Comedy -- 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 -- References -- 3 Masters as Debtors of Their Servants in Early Modern Brandenburg and Saxony -- 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 Loans -- 3.5 Transforming Debt into Gift -- References -- 4 Debt Culture in Shakespeare's Time -- References -- 5 A Legal Remedy Against Rent Arrears: Landlords' Privilege on Furniture in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century France -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Dealing with Unpaid Rent: A Public Order Preoccupation -- 5.2.1 The Rise of Urban Housing and Landlords' Difficulties in Rent Management -- 5.2.2 The Tenants' Contractual Obligations to Pay Rent and to Provide Sufficient Furniture -- 5.2.3 A Legal Remedy for Unpaid Landlords: The Privilege of Execution on Furniture -- 5.3 An Exceptional Privilege Consolidated by Customary Law -- 5.3.1 Historical Perspective on the Distinction between Movable and Immovable Securities for Debt -- 5.3.2 The Landlord's Privilege: An Exception to the General Principles of Movable Securities for Debt -- 5.3.3 A Privilege Considerably Strengthened by the 1580 Reformation of the Custom of Paris -- 5.4 Effectiveness in Execution: A Strong Privilege Challenged by Unavoidable Difficulties.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783030597689
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Early modern debts Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2020 ISBN 9783030597689
Language:
English
