Anja Amend-Traut, Albrecht Cordes, Wolfgang Sellert
This volume presents articles on economic issues in the Holy Roman Empire. The specific themes examined here are monetary and regulatory policy, fundraising through lottery games, gambling debts, canonical prohibition of interest and Rentenkauf (purchase of a right to periodic payments), trade and trade prohibitions, guilds, allodification of military tenure, limitation of liability for women in the case of bankruptcy, debit commission, corruption at the Imperial Chamber Court and incomes of the judges at the Reichshofrat. The court decisions of the Imperial Chamber Court, the Reichshofrat...
This volume presents articles on economic issues in the Holy Roman Empire. The specific themes examined here are monetary and regulatory policy, fu...
Dealing with economic failure is one of the persistent and ubiquitous features of economic life. This volume brings together international scholars from several academic disciplines - economic and social history, legal history and law. They address a variety of different aspects on economic failure ranging from case studies on bankruptcy, insolvency, speculation, and strategies of coping with economic and financial squeezes. One focus throughout the book is on the in-betweens and the reciprocal impact of law and practice. The timeframe covers the period from the late middle ages to the...
Dealing with economic failure is one of the persistent and ubiquitous features of economic life. This volume brings together international scholars fr...