Of Bondage: Debt, Property, and Personhood in Early Modern England

by Amanda Bailey and Amanda Bailey

The late sixteenth-century penal debt bond, which allowed an unsatisfied creditor to seize the body of his debtor, set in motion a series of precedents that would shape the legal, philosophical, and moral issue of property-in-person in England and America for centuries. Focusing on this historical juncture at which debt litigation was not merely an aspect of society but seemed to engulf it completely, Of Bondage examines a culture that understood...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812245164
• ISBN13: 9780812245165
• Release Date: June 2013
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.1"