Why peasant goes into debt?. The meaning of medieval usury (Castile, XVth Century)

This paper explores the characteristics of peasant indebtedness relationships in Castilian Later Middle Ages. Current historiography, based upon the so-called Commercialization and New Institutional Economics approaches, ignores the inequalities that the mercantile relationships reproduce and emphas...

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Main Author: Octavio Colombo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidad Nacional de La Plata 2015-12-01
Series:Sociedades Precapitalistas
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Online Access:http://www.sociedadesprecapitalistas.fahce.unlp.edu.ar/article/view/5426