This paper discusses the uses and functions of hereditary leases (roughly speaking: copyhold possession of urban real estate whereby a personal dependency of the lessee to the lessor was established), especially in Strasbourg and Wurzburg. It also examines the annuity markets (annuities are defined as hypothecary credit based on freehold urban real estate, without any personal bonds between the seller and the buyer) of several cities of the German Hanse, particularly Hamburg, in the Late Middle Ages. At the same time, it attempts to refute G. Signori’s critique of the basic premises of an extended research project on these annuity markets initiated by R. Sprandel in the late 1960s. The paper emphasizes the legal basis of annuities (freehold possession of land), the streamlined formalities of buying and selling annuities, and the sheer number of annuity contracts in Hamburg and other Hanse cities. This means they can be regarded as both true commercial credit instruments and as reliable indicators of economic cycles.
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The article provides empirical evidence on the use of two types of security in medieval finance: conditional hostageship and the community responsibility system. Both exposed guarantors to imprisonment or confiscation. Evidence from Dordrecht shows the former was frequently applied but was not very disruptive. However, the latter community responsibility system did lead to reprisals against merchants. It was used to provide the ruler with loan guarantees: Dordrecht's travelling citizens acted as collateral, and thus played a crucial role in enabling the ruler to create sovereign debt. The city's willingness to provide this financial service for many centuries, while exposing its merchants to reprisals in the process, must be seen in the context of Charles Tilly's model of an ongoing exchange where cities provided financial services and rulers compensated them with political and economic privileges.
{"title":"Prison Bound?","authors":"J. Zuijderduijn","doi":"10.25162/VSWG-2019-0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25162/VSWG-2019-0002","url":null,"abstract":"The article provides empirical evidence on the use of two types of security in medieval finance: conditional hostageship and the community responsibility system. Both exposed guarantors to imprisonment or confiscation. Evidence from Dordrecht shows the former was frequently applied but was not very disruptive. However, the latter community responsibility system did lead to reprisals against merchants. It was used to provide the ruler with loan guarantees: Dordrecht's travelling citizens acted as collateral, and thus played a crucial role in enabling the ruler to create sovereign debt. The city's willingness to provide this financial service for many centuries, while exposing its merchants to reprisals in the process, must be seen in the context of Charles Tilly's model of an ongoing exchange where cities provided financial services and rulers compensated them with political and economic privileges.","PeriodicalId":41261,"journal":{"name":"VSWG-Vierteljahrschrift fur Sozial-und Wirtschaftsgeschichte","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2019-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83215293","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Socially Responsible Investment in 19th Century Greece: A Case Study of a Swiss Banker","authors":"Korinna Schönhärl","doi":"10.25162/VSWG-2019-0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25162/VSWG-2019-0007","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41261,"journal":{"name":"VSWG-Vierteljahrschrift fur Sozial-und Wirtschaftsgeschichte","volume":"17 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2019-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88355770","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Défricher la terre et se l’approprier","authors":"Juan José Larrea","doi":"10.25162/vswg-2019-0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25162/vswg-2019-0008","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41261,"journal":{"name":"VSWG-Vierteljahrschrift fur Sozial-und Wirtschaftsgeschichte","volume":"2 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84112407","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Richard Korherrs „Bericht über die Endlösung der europäischen Judenfrage“","authors":"Christian Eckl","doi":"10.25162/vswg-2019-0011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25162/vswg-2019-0011","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41261,"journal":{"name":"VSWG-Vierteljahrschrift fur Sozial-und Wirtschaftsgeschichte","volume":"61 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76593723","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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