Chapter Honour, social capital and alternative currencies: the “leisting” custom in the cities of the Late Medieval Low Countries and Rhineland

In this paper we analyse a specific legal clause inserted in debt contracts in the late Medieval Low Countries: the ‘leistinge’ custom. It implied personal sureties, i.e., vassals or councillors of the debtor (and sometimes himself) who had to go sojourning in an inn for an unspecified period, and t...

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Autors principals:	de Meulemeester, Jean-Luc, Kusman, Pierre-David
Format:	Online
Idioma:	anglès
Publicat:	Firenze University Press 2025
Matèries:	Hospitality economy Debt-enforcement mechanisms Conditional hostages Moral economy and credit practices Reputation based-mechanisms thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KC Economics::KCZ Economic history
Accés en línia:	ONIX_20241220_9791221503470_216
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