Legal Plunder: Households and Debt Collection in Late Medieval Europe

by Daniel Lord Smail

As Europe began to grow rich during the Middle Ages, its wealth materialized in the well-made clothes, linens, and wares of ordinary households. Such items were indicators of one's station in life in a society accustomed to reading visible signs of rank. In a world without banking, household goods became valuable commodities that often substituted for hard currency. Pawnbrokers and resellers sprang up, helping to push these goods into circulation...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674737288
• ISBN13: 9780674737280
• Release Date: June 2016
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.3"