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

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
Subjects:
Usura
Campesinado
Comercialización
Castilla
Online Access:http://www.sociedadesprecapitalistas.fahce.unlp.edu.ar/article/view/5426
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spelling doaj-6b78470a9e04464396f31c911a786c0d2021-01-02T06:35:27ZengUniversidad Nacional de La PlataSociedades Precapitalistas2250-51212015-12-01515410Why peasant goes into debt?. The meaning of medieval usury (Castile, XVth Century)Octavio ColomboThis 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 emphasizes the beneficial aspects of rural markets and credit. Using documents from Castilian <em>concejos</em>, specially the books of a public notary from Ávila, the paper analyzes rural loans and its relations with agrarian cycle and feudal extraction. After a quantitative test, we discuss in analytical and qualitative terms the specific form of pre-capitalist usurious capitalhttp://www.sociedadesprecapitalistas.fahce.unlp.edu.ar/article/view/5426UsuraCampesinadoComercializaciónCastilla
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Why peasant goes into debt?. The meaning of medieval usury (Castile, XVth Century)
Sociedades Precapitalistas
Usura
Campesinado
Comercialización
Castilla
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title Why peasant goes into debt?. The meaning of medieval usury (Castile, XVth Century)
title_short Why peasant goes into debt?. The meaning of medieval usury (Castile, XVth Century)
title_full Why peasant goes into debt?. The meaning of medieval usury (Castile, XVth Century)
title_fullStr Why peasant goes into debt?. The meaning of medieval usury (Castile, XVth Century)
title_full_unstemmed Why peasant goes into debt?. The meaning of medieval usury (Castile, XVth Century)
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publisher Universidad Nacional de La Plata
series Sociedades Precapitalistas
issn 2250-5121
publishDate 2015-12-01
description 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 emphasizes the beneficial aspects of rural markets and credit. Using documents from Castilian <em>concejos</em>, specially the books of a public notary from Ávila, the paper analyzes rural loans and its relations with agrarian cycle and feudal extraction. After a quantitative test, we discuss in analytical and qualitative terms the specific form of pre-capitalist usurious capital
topic Usura
Campesinado
Comercialización
Castilla
url http://www.sociedadesprecapitalistas.fahce.unlp.edu.ar/article/view/5426
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