‘Fly with a duck in thy mouth’: single women as sources of credit in seventeenth-century England 1

2007/05/01 by Judith M. Spicksley, Judith Spicksley
Economics, Econometrics and Finance · #Historical Economic and Social Studies

paper · doi:10.1080/03071020701265809

openalex publication_date 2007/05/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/30

Abstract

About the year 1500, an Italian visitor, in relating to his lord his experience of ‘the island of England’, included a reference to the participation of the ‘common people’ in interest-bearing lend...

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