Power, Social Relations, and Credit Under the Old Regime
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TexteLangue : français Détails de publication : 2012.
Sujet(s) : Ressources en ligne : Abrégé : This essay first shows that overindebtedness was a st ructural phenomenon in European early modern societies, which concerned every social group: peasants as well as nobles and merchants. Aristocratic ethos, which pervaded the entire society explains why, and is visible in the chosen forms of the contracts and in the impossibility to refuse credit to one’s family, one’s peers and dependants, and also, for the merchants, to the aristocrats. It ends showing how Samuel Pepys managed to escape the social links of debt.
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This essay first shows that overindebtedness was a st ructural phenomenon in European early modern societies, which concerned every social group: peasants as well as nobles and merchants. Aristocratic ethos, which pervaded the entire society explains why, and is visible in the chosen forms of the contracts and in the impossibility to refuse credit to one’s family, one’s peers and dependants, and also, for the merchants, to the aristocrats. It ends showing how Samuel Pepys managed to escape the social links of debt.
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