Introduction: law courts, contracts and rural society in Europe, 1200–1600

Briggs, Chris

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“…By interrogating the reasons accounting for these local notarial styles, this article also contributes to the growing interest in the material history of legal formalization (Briggs 2014;Lydon 2009) and the "cultures of record-keeping" (Walsham 2016). We argue that quantitative methods can provide important tools for investigating the profiles of such "cultures" (or "styles," in our terminology) and drawing comparisons.…”

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1751 and Thereabout: A Quantitative and Comparative Approach to Notarial Records

Lemercier

Trivellato²

2022

Soc. sci. hist.

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This article asks a simple question that nevertheless has broad implications for historians of premodern continental Europe: What did notaries do? It answers it by applying descriptive statistics, principal component analysis, and clustering techniques to the typological distribution of all deeds preserved in the notarial collections of six French and Italian cities—Paris, Toulouse, Mende, Turin, Florence, and Livorno—for the year 1751, as well as smaller datasets for other dates and locations. The results of this analysis are surprising. In spite of a high degree of consistency in the notarial profession and terminology (a trait that facilitates our comparisons), the notarial style of each city varied greatly. Variations within a single state were sometimes greater than those across state borders. Both supply and demand of notarial services differed from city to city. Overall, our conclusions are as important as the methodology that we adopt to reach them. Our aim is to offer a replicable analysis that puts quantitative methods in the service not only of the study of a source (notarial records) that is widespread across late medieval and early modern continental Europe and its overseas empires but also of a renewed comparative social history that does not shy away from the heterogeneity of primary sources.

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1751 and Thereabout: A Quantitative and Comparative Approach to Notarial Records

Lemercier

Trivellato²

2022

Soc. sci. hist.

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Financialization and Sustainable Credit: Lessons from Non-Intermediated Transactions?

Svetiev

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Kolanisi³

2022

J Consum Policy

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Does increasing access to finance promote human flourishing? And if so, are there pathways to sustainable credit and finance in the face of the perceived excesses of financialization? Can we reform or regulate the financial sector to promote sustainable credit and avoid over-indebtedness? These and similar questions have attracted considerable scholarly and public debate in the aftermath of the 2007 global financial crisis, with a growing focus on institutional alternatives to market exchange in finance and beyond. In this article, we study the persistence of non-intermediated credit, whereby lenders and borrowers engage in transactions directly and without financial intermediaries. Peer lending was a mainstay source of credit prior to the emergence of financial intermediaries and our benchmark case study outlines common features of credit relationships before modern banking in Europe. The other two case studies come from jurisdictions where non-intermediated credit persists on a broad scale, despite parties having formal access to modern finance. The aim of our contribution is threefold. First, we identify features of non-intermediated transactions that are consistent with a notion of sustainable credit, in the sense that they are not destabilising for the transacting parties (or the broader community). Secondly, we highlight the normative mechanisms that support non-intermediated credit across different settings to identify the scope conditions and limits for such transactions. Third, we evaluate such credit transactions along a set of normative benchmarks to draw out lessons for contemporary finance and financial regulation. We argue that even if non-intermediated credit cannot provide an alternative to modern finance, such transactions can help financial institutions tailor products to the needs of specific consumers or outsource credit assessment and repayment, while also allowing policymakers and regulators to identify and resolve concrete credit access problems for disadvantaged communities.

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Village court records and peasant credit in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Poland

Guzowski

2014

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In fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Poland, village courts facilitated the registration of a variety of private transactions among peasants. This article uses the surviving court books of this period to explore the courts' development and functions, and to analyse the numerous peasant credit contracts found in their records. The aim of the article is to show that in late medieval and early modern Poland the village courts provided a well-established system for registering peasant transactions, and that this played an important role in the development of credit and land markets.

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Introduction: law courts, contracts and rural society in Europe, 1200–1600

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1751 and Thereabout: A Quantitative and Comparative Approach to Notarial Records

1751 and Thereabout: A Quantitative and Comparative Approach to Notarial Records

Financialization and Sustainable Credit: Lessons from Non-Intermediated Transactions?

Village court records and peasant credit in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Poland

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