Pawned Horses: Risk and Liability in Fourteenth Century German Small-Credit Market
Many Jewish-Christian credit transactions relied on pawns as collateral, which presumably eliminated the risk in the case of debtors’ default. However, keeping and maintaining certain pawns involved particular risks that further complicated these transactions. This paper focuses on live pawns, speci...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2021
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Medieval encounters
Year: 2021, Volume: 27, Issue: 4/5, Pages: 387-409 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Germany
/ Financial market
/ Personal loan
/ Jews
/ Pawnbrokers
/ Horse
/ Collateral (finance)
/ Risk
/ History 1250-1400
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| IxTheo Classification: | AX Inter-religious relations BH Judaism CC Christianity and Non-Christian religion; Inter-religious relations KBB German language area ZB Sociology ZD Psychology |
| Further subjects: | B
moneylending
B Credit B Ashkenaz B pawns B Jewish-Christian exchange B Horses |
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