Early Modern Debts: 1550–1700. Laura Kolb and George Oppitz-Trotman, eds. Palgrave Studies in Literature, Culture and Economics. London: Palgave Macmillan, 2020. xvi + 416 pp. €114.39

[...]they openly claim that the book aims to offer “both a look back to and a look beyond The Economy of Obligation, breaking new paths for the study of early modern debts” (9). [...]through an almost constant dialogue between archival documentation, poems, novels, and plays, it shows the pervasiveness of credit relations in the lives of individuals. [...]this edited volume is an important contribution that should be read by all economic historians of financial markets, as it offers an interesting view of cultural aspects that are often overlooked by the literature on the topic.