1st Edition
A History of the Credit Market in Central Europe The Middle Ages and Early Modern Period
Introduction: credit in Central European historiography
ROMAN ZAORAL
PART 1 Loans and debts as a part of royal finances
1 Loan transactions in the Kingdom of Hungary up to the end of the 14th century
BOGLÁRKA WEISZ
2 Loans and debts of the Bohemian kings in the Middle Ages: from the last Přemyslids until the end of the pre-Hussite period (1262–1419)
ZDENĚK ŽALUD
3 Income and expenditures of the Hungarian Royal Chamber during the first ruling years of King Vladislaus Jagiellon: analysis of an accounting register from the years 1494–1495
PETR KOZÁK
4 The beginnings of royal pledging in the Kingdom of Hungary
JÁNOS INCZE
5 King’s debts and king’s creditors in Poland in the first half of the 15th century
PIOTR GUZOWSKI
6 The political and economic relevance of Jewish loans for the dukes of Austria during the late Middle Ages
EVELINE BRUGGER
PART 2 Credit market in medieval and early modern towns
7 Written sources concerning debts and loans in late medieval Czech towns
HANA PÁTKOVÁ
8 Monetary credit market in the cities of the southern Baltic coast in the late Middle Ages (Greifswald, Gdańsk, Elbląg, Toruń, Rewel)
CEZARY KARDASZ
9 Rural credit and monetarisation of the peasantry in the late Middle Ages: the Eger city state c. 1450
TOMÁŠ KLÍR
10 The credit market in Old Warsaw in the late Middle Ages
PIOTR ŁOZOWSKI
11 Credit and finance in Rudolphine Prague
MARIE BUŇATOVÁ
12 The credit market of a small peripheral Polish town in the early modern period
MONIKA KOZŁOWSKA-SZYC
13 Jewish credit business in the urban context of late medieval Austria
BIRGIT WIEDL
PART 3 Economic, political, legal and other consequences of debts and loans
14 Economical and political consequences of the limiting of the statutory maximum interest rate in Central Europe from 10% to 6% since 1543
PETR VOREL
15 Legal regulation of the credit market in Bohemia and Moravia
PAVLA SLAVÍČKOVÁ
16 The trade in farm money in rural areas in the 16th and 17th centuries (using the example of small towns on the Pardubice estate)
TEREZA SIGLOVÁ
17 Investments of a south Bohemian ‘banker’ in the first half of the 16th century: the credit operations of Knight Petr Doudlebský of Doudleby
TOMÁŠ STERNECK
18 The Lithuanian Evangelical Reformed Church as a credit institution in the 17th century
MARZENA LIEDKE AND PIOTR GUZOWSKA
19 Debts and claims as a part of administration and everyday life of Bohemian chamber estates in the early modern period
ZUZANA VLASÁKOVÁ
20 Financial aspects of the property transactions of rural subjects in Moravia in the 16th and 17th centuries
BRONISLAV CHOCHOLÁČ
21 Debt in the life of a Gdansk merchant
ANNA PAULINA ORŁOWSKA
Index
Biography
Pavla Slavíčková is an assistant professor at the Palacky University in Olomouc, the Czech Republic.
