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.