A Stake in the Ground: Jews and Property Investment in the Medieval Crown of Aragon

Michael Schraer (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

300 Seiten

2019
Brill (Verlag)
9789004392373 (ISBN)

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In A Stake in the Ground, Michael Schraer challenges the traditional view of medieval Jews as money-lenders and merchants, finding property trading and investment to be an essential part of their economic activities in the crown of Aragon.

In A Stake in the Ground, Michael Schraer explores the economic functions of real estate amongst the Jews of the medieval crown of Aragon. He challenges the view of medieval Jews as primarily money-lenders and merchants, finding compelling evidence for extensive property trading and investment. Jews are found as landlords to Christian tenants, transferring land in dowries, wills and gifts. Property holdings were often extremely valuable. For some, property was a major part of their asset portfolios. Whilst many property transactions were linked to the credit boom, land also acted as a liquid and tradeable investment asset in its own right. This is a key contribution to the economic history of medieval Iberia and of medieval Jews.

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Michael Schraer, Ph.D. (2016), Cambridge, is an economist and economic historian researching Iberian Jews. He has published on the merchant, financier and rentier, Salamon Abnarrabi, and a chapter on Jewish mortgage lending in Briggs and Zuijderduijn (eds.), Land and Credit (2018).

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List of Illustrations

Abbreviations

Orthography

Currencies, Land Areas and Weights and Measures

Glossary

1 Introduction

Part 1: Jews as Property Investors: The Evidence

2 Property Rights

3 Jews in the Market for Land

4 Lords of the Land?

Jews as Rentiers and Cultivators

5 Dowries, Wills and Gifts

Property and the Transfer of Wealth

6 The Link between Credit and Land

Part 2: Property and the Jewish Economy

7 The Economic Case for Property

Asset Choices, Risk and Return

8 Credit and Property in the Wealth of the Jews

9 Postscript

Appendix 1: Currencies and Equivalences

Appendix 2: Land Areas, Weights and Measures in the Archival Sources

Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	25.03.2019
Reihe/Serie	The Medieval and Early Modern Iberian World ; 69
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	592 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Judentum
ISBN-13	9789004392373 / 9789004392373
Zustand	Neuware