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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Main Authors:	de Meulemeester, Jean-Luc, Kusman, Pierre-David
Formato:	Online
Idioma:	inglês
Publicado em:	Firenze University Press 2025
Assuntos:	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
Acesso em linha:	ONIX_20241220_9791221503470_216
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