Debt and Indebtedness at Emar

Debt and Indebtedness at Emar
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Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages : 561
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ISBN-10 : 9781501515316
ISBN-13 : 1501515314
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Book Synopsis Debt and Indebtedness at Emar by : Maurizio Viano

Download or read book Debt and Indebtedness at Emar written by Maurizio Viano and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2023-06-19 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first comprehensive study of debts and credit system at Emar. It focuses on the socio-economic aspects of credit access and indebtedness as well as on the motivations behind debts and debt settlement in the city of Emar. The credit system is analyzed through several factors: the purpose of debts, i.e., productive or consumptive; the procedures for granting loans; the strategies put in place to meet an obligation and to cope with economic difficulties; the consequences of non-fulfillment, which may lead to servitude or slavery; the different types of slavery; slave prices; the mechanisms of enslavement; and termination of slavery. Moneylending practices and the formation of servile conditions at Emar are studied in the context of the Syrian economy aiming to understand whether the Emar evidence conforms with a socio political and economic crisis that is generally acknowledged to have struck Syria, Anatolia and Northern Mesopotamia at the end of the Late Bronze Age. This work is of sure relevance for scholars interested in socio-economic history, not only of the pertinent historical-geographical area.


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