Legal Plunder: Households and Debt Collection in Late Medieval EuropeКНИГИ » ИСТОРИЯ
Название: Legal Plunder: Households and Debt Collection in Late Medieval Europe Автор: Daniel Lord Smail Издательство: Harvard University Press ISBN: 0674737288 Год: 2016 Формат: PDF Страниц: 344 Размер: 132,1 МБ Язык: Английский
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.