Early Modern Debts: 1550-1700

ISBN-13: 9783030597689 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 416 str.

Laura Kolb; George Oppitz-Trotman

Recenzje

"These well-researched essays make a compelling case for the necessity of exploring early modern debt as a multifaceted cultural practice and add to our understanding of the early modern culture of borrowing and lending. Early Modern Debts, 1550-1700 provides a very satisfying introduction into the cultural history of economic and social bonds in early modern Europe, which both an early modernist and a more general reader will come to appreciate." (Anna Kowalcze-Pawlik, Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen, Vol. 174 (259), 2022)

Spis treści

1.       Chapter 1: Introduction – Laura Kolb and George Oppitz-Trotman

1.1   Debt Connects

1.2   Economies of Obligation, Then and Now

1.3   Expanding the Horizons of Early Modern Debts

Part One: Family, household, community

2.       Chapter 2: Debt and Doorways – Lorna Hutson

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

 

3.       Chapter 3: Masters as Debtors of their Servants in Early Modern Brandenburg and Saxony – Sebastian Kühn

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 Credits

3.5   Transforming Debt into Gift

 

4.       Chapter 4: Debt Culture in Shakespeare’s Time – Lena Cowen Orlin

 

5.       Chapter 5: A legal remedy against rent arrears: Landlords’ privilege on furniture in 16th- and 17th-century France – Nga Bellis-Phan

5.1 Introduction

5.2 Dealing with unpaid rent: a public order preoccupation

5.3 An exceptional privilege consolidated by customary law

5.4 Effectiveness in execution: a strong privilege challenged by unavoidable difficulties

5.5 Conclusion

Part Two: Debt’s Networks

6.       Chapter 6: Crafting the Hierarchy of Debts: The Example of Antwerp (15th-16th Centuries) – Dave De ruysscher

6.1 Introduction

6.2 The Relevance of Ranking Debts

6.3 Antwerp Rules on Debt in the Fifteenth Century

6.4   Hesitations on the Dowry and Bills Obligatory

6.5   Conclusion

 

7.       Chapter 7: Debt, Trust and Reputation in Early Modern Armenian Merchant Networks – Alexandr Osipian

7.1 Introduction

7.2 Trust, Credit, and Trading Diasporas

7.3 Credit and Networks of Reputation

7.4 Public Discourse on Commerce, Luxury and Armenian Trading Diasporas

7.5 Legal Exceptions from Debt Repayment

7.6 Debt Collection and the Church Agency

7.7   A Credit History between Poland and India: Responsibility, Surety and Solidarity

7.8   Reputation, Defamation, and Moral Pressure

7.9   Conclusion

 

8.       Chapter 8: How to Deal with Obligations? Contentious Debts and the Parere of the Handelsvorstand in Early Modern Nürnberg – Christof Jeggle

8.1 Introduction

8.2 Merchants and their Obligations

8.3 Establishing Commercial Jurisdiction in Nürnberg

8.4 Establishing the Parere as an Element of Commercial Jurisdiction and their Reception

8.5 The Parere as a Component of Commercial Jurisdiction

8.6 Narratives of Obligation

8.7   Conclusion

 

9.       Chapter 9: Capillary Obligations: Fletcher’s Island Princess and the Global Debts of the East India Company – Benjamin D. VanWagoner

9.1 A Company of Debtors

9.2 Carceral Debt in The Island Princess

9.3 Capillary Obligations

Part Three: The Language and Logic of Debt

10.   Chapter 10: Hypallactic Debt Management: The Rhetoric of Exchange in Wyatt and Shakespeare – Andrew Zurcher

10.1 Debt, grief, and incoherence in Wyatt's 'The piller pearisht'

10.2 Misgivings and mistakings in Shakespeare's Sonnet 87

10.3 Debt, hypallage, and the double-take in Cymbeline, King of Britain

10.4 The Winter’s Tale: Consideration and the Hypallactic Changeling

 

11.   Chapter 11: Caroline Debt: Shakespeare to Shirley – John Kerrigan

 

12.   Chapter 12: Debt Letters: Epistolary Economies in Early Modern England – Laura Kolb

12.1 Introduction

12.2 Business Letters and Familiar Letters

12.3 Entertainment and Utility

12.4 Conclusion: Beyond Manuals

 

13.   Chapter 13: Debt and Paradox in the Early Modern Period – Alexander Douglas

13.1 Introduction

13.2 Is It Good to Be in Debt?

13.3 Can a Borrower Bind Herself?

13.4 Is Usury Justified?

13.5 Conclusion

Part Four: The Indebted Self

14.   Self-Love and the Transformation of Obligation to Self-Control in Early Modern British Society – Craig Muldrew

 

 

 

 

 

 

O autorze

Laura Kolb is Assistant Professor of English at Baruch College CUNY, USA. She is the author of Fictions of Credit in the Age of Shakespeare (2021).

George Oppitz-Trotman is the author of The Origins of English Revenge Tragedy (2019) and Stages of Loss. The English Comedians and their Reception (2020).

Blurb

Early Modern Debts: 1550–1700 makes an important contribution to the history of debt and credit in Europe, creating new transnational and interdisciplinary perspectives on problems of debt, credit, trust, interest, and investment in early modern societies. The collection includes essays by leading international scholars and early career researchers in the fields of economic and social history, legal history, literary criticism, and philosophy on such subjects as trust and belief; risk; institutional history; colonialism; personhood; interiority; rhetorical invention; amicable language; ethnicity and credit; household economics; service; and the history of comedy. Across the collection, the book reveals debt’s ubiquity in life and literature. It considers debt’s function as a tie between the individual and the larger group and the ways in which debts structured the home, urban life, legal systems, and linguistic and literary forms.