Download or read book Credit and Village Society in Fourteenth-Century England written by Chris Briggs and published by British Academy. This book was released on 2009 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Credit transactions were a common and important feature of peasant society in the middle ages. This study of rural credit in medieval England uses the evidence of inter-peasant debt litigation to investigate the lenders and borrowers, the uses to which credit was put, and the effects of credit on social relationships.