Paper institutions: the early modern state and the role of women in the credit market through pious works
Abstract
The aim of this article is to understand how women from the early modern period participated in credit markets through paper institutions and which were the consequences for the state consolidation. To achieve that objective, this work analyses the development of a pious work created after the death of a businesswoman, which contributed to the mobilisation of capital and the interconnection of local and regional economies through conventual and marriage dowries during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in Castile.
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