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Credit and finance in Rudolphine Prague.

Publication at Faculty of Arts |
2020

Abstract

This chapter focuses on the issue of money lending in Early Modern Age society in Prague. The legal environment for trade, as well as the legislative terms that developed in relation to money lending by Jews and Christians during the 16th century in the Bohemian Common Law of the Land, are also described.

These aspects are presented in the context of the business practices of Jewish and Christian wholesalers and financiers in Prague in the Rudolphine era.