Essays about: "William Renström"

Found 1 essay containing the words William Renström.

  1. 1. Credit at Court : Court servants and urban credit markets 1688-1708

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Historiska institutionen

    Author : William Renström; [2022]
    Keywords : Credit; Banking; State servants; Royal court; Moneylending; Debt; Stockholm; Kredit; kreditmarknad; hov; skuld; tidigmodern;

    Abstract : This thesis studies the debts and claims of court servants in Stockholm from 1688 to 1708 as a case study of early credit markets, exploring the transition from pre-modern informal systems based on personal trust and peer-to-peer lending to modern institutional banking. The thesis shows that the court servants were prominent moneylenders with relatively little debt and argues that these characteristics were by influenced their greater access to cash through their wages from the court. READ MORE