Enforcing agreements: notaries and 
courts in early modern Rome

Ago, Renata

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“…94 Renata Ago suggests that this banking practice was peculiar to Rome. 95 Consequently, Zacchia's consilia amplify understanding of economic history; Romans perceived the intrinsic vulnerability of their wives to perinatal death as a financial asset.…”

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Questioning Medicine in Seventeenth-Century Rome: The Consultations of Paolo Zacchia

Duffin

2011

Canadian Bulletin of Medical History

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Abstract. This paper surveys the life and contributions of Paolo Zacchia (1584-1659) before analyzing 85 Latin consilia (or consultations) in his Quaestiones medico-legales. Topics include death, paternity, sexuality, disease, and miracles. Because the consilia cite the rest of his treatise, they open the entire work, elucidating applications of theory. This research relied on the construction of a database, built on subject, date, and citations. The paper closes with historiographic suggestions for why this prominent author has been ignored in North America.Keywords. medical jurisprudence, religion, law, history of medicine, 17th century Résumé. Cet article présente la vie et la contribution de Paolo Zacchia (1585-1659) pour ensuite analyser 85 consilia (ou consultations) tirées de son Quaestiones medico-legales. La mort, la paternité, la sexualité, la maladie et les miracles comptent parmi les sujets traités. Parce qu'elles citent la reste du texte, ces consilia illustrent l'oeuvre entière et fournissent des exemples de mise en oeuvre de sa théorie. Cette recherche s'appuie sur l'élaboration d'une base de données recensant les thématiques concernées, les dates et des citations. Cet article conclut sur des interprétations historiographiques expliquant pourquoi cet auteur majeur a été ignoré en Amérique du Nord.

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Questioning Medicine in Seventeenth-Century Rome: The Consultations of Paolo Zacchia

Duffin

2011

Canadian Bulletin of Medical History

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“…As the different channels of credit coexisted to answer various needs, we also find diversity in terms of contracts (Ago 1999: 196). For the purpose of this article, I will concentrate mainly on the institutional credit market and on notarial contracts.…”

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“…The notary, however, was the official channel and institution for credit transactions (Hoffman et al 2001b: 1994). In early modern Europe, notaries could be found in various regions, including Italy and Spain (Ago 1999; Nussdorfer 2009; Soldelvila 2014). In England, there were public notaries or scribes who might write down contracts (Cheney 1972).…”

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Rethinking Debt: The Evolution of Private Credit Markets in Preindustrial France

Dermineur¹

2018

Soc. sci. hist.

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This article focuses on traditional private credit markets in eighteenth-century France through the examination of notarized loan deeds and to a lesser extent civil court records. It examines in particular how credit markets functioned and how they developed in the eighteenth century. It argues that traditional credit markets featured norms of solidarity, cooperation, and fairness, and allowed considerable flexibility and input from both creditors and debtors. But in the middle of the eighteenth century, this market experienced several major changes. Not only did the volume of exchange and the number of notarized credit contracts dramatically increase, engendering a standardization of contracts and a greater resort to external institutions, but a new group of investors modified the traditional norms and practices of exchange. This article concludes that the private credit market shifted from an institution in which input, negotiation, and flexibility prevailed to a more rigid institution in which rules and rigor applied.

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Law, Politics and Society in Early Modern England

Brooks¹

2009

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Law, like religion, provided one of the principal discourses through which early modern English people conceptualised the world in which they lived. Transcending traditional boundaries between social, legal and political history, this innovative and authoritative study examines the development of legal thought and practice from the later Middle Ages through to the outbreak of the English civil war, and explores the ways in which law mediated and constituted social and economic relationships within the household, the community and the state at all levels. By arguing that English common law was essentially the creation of the wider community, it challenges many current assumptions and opens new perspectives about how early modern society should be understood. Its magisterial scope and lucid exposition will make it essential reading for those interested in subjects ranging from high politics and constitutional theory to the history of the family, as well as the history of law.

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Enforcing agreements: notaries and courts in early modern Rome

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Questioning Medicine in Seventeenth-Century Rome: The Consultations of Paolo Zacchia

Questioning Medicine in Seventeenth-Century Rome: The Consultations of Paolo Zacchia

Rethinking Debt: The Evolution of Private Credit Markets in Preindustrial France

Law, Politics and Society in Early Modern England

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