Préstamos con interés encubierto de cristianos y judíos en la Galicia del siglo XV

María Gloria De Antonio Rubio

doi:10.3989/sefarad.016.016

Loans with Hidden Interest Made by Christians and Jews in Galicia throughout the15th Century

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María Gloria De Antonio Rubio Instituto de Estudios Gallegos «Padre Sarmiento» – CSIC

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https://doi.org/10.3989/sefarad.016.016

Keywords:

Middle Ages, Economic History, Usury, Minorities

Abstract

All the loan agreements are commercial, except the ones made among friends or family relatives. That is, they look for some benefits for the loaner. However, the legal and religious restrictions on charging interest forced Jews and Christians to develop some techniques for hiding them. In some cases, they falsified the amount of money that had been lent. In other cases, they demanded the repayment of the amount of money that had been loaned in exchange for some property or its value in the market but not for money. The documentary, geographical and chronological frame that has been chosen to analyse this type of loans comes from two notarial books of the 15th century. However, this restriction does not prevent the proposed methods from being applicable to other fields.

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Published

2016-12-30

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De Antonio Rubio, M. G. (2016). Loans with Hidden Interest Made by Christians and Jews in Galicia throughout the15th Century. Sefarad, 76(2), 491–508. https://doi.org/10.3989/sefarad.016.016

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Vol. 76 No. 2 (2016)

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Varia

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