• 1: Introduction: rural credit2: The forms of credit and their uses3: The formation of credit relationships4: Creditors and debtors5: Credit and social relations6: The credit supplyConclusion

For the first time we have the publication of a monograph examining the organisation and supply of rural credit in later medieval England, and one all the richer for interpreting the evidence within the context of European historiography ... this book achieves what it was intended to do, and sets the whole subject of peasant indebtedness in England on a new footing. Richard Britnell, English Historical Review Briggs must be congratulated for this carefully argued and painstakingly researched monograph, His deft and throrough questioning of his source material reveals in full the problematic nature of his data and, as a result, the tentative nature of his conclusions, but it also reminds us how wonderfully imaginative medieval historians can be. Judith Spicksley, Rural History [An] important and stimulating study. Miriam Muller, Reviews in History ...studious and convincing work...a welter of evidence...he has uncovered [...] the first visible signs of a process with deep roots... Alex Burghart, Times Literary Supplement an important study ... an optimistic view of the medieval English countryside, which provides an effective counterblast to those who regard the peasantry as expolited, impoverished, and unsophisticated. Mark Page, Southern History

• 1: Introduction: rural credit2: The forms of credit and their uses3: The formation of credit relationships4: Creditors and debtors5: Credit and social relations6: The credit supplyConclusion

For the first time we have the publication of a monograph examining the organisation and supply of rural credit in later medieval England, and one all the richer for interpreting the evidence within the context of European historiography ... this book achieves what it was intended to do, and sets the whole subject of peasant indebtedness in England on a new footing. Richard Britnell, English Historical Review Briggs must be congratulated for this carefully argued and painstakingly researched monograph, His deft and throrough questioning of his source material reveals in full the problematic nature of his data and, as a result, the tentative nature of his conclusions, but it also reminds us how wonderfully imaginative medieval historians can be. Judith Spicksley, Rural History [An] important and stimulating study. Miriam Muller, Reviews in History ...studious and convincing work...a welter of evidence...he has uncovered [...] the first visible signs of a process with deep roots... Alex Burghart, Times Literary Supplement an important study ... an optimistic view of the medieval English countryside, which provides an effective counterblast to those who regard the peasantry as expolited, impoverished, and unsophisticated. Mark Page, Southern History

• 1: Introduction: rural credit2: The forms of credit and their uses3: The formation of credit relationships4: Creditors and debtors5: Credit and social relations6: The credit supplyConclusion

For the first time we have the publication of a monograph examining the organisation and supply of rural credit in later medieval England, and one all the richer for interpreting the evidence within the context of European historiography ... this book achieves what it was intended to do, and sets the whole subject of peasant indebtedness in England on a new footing. Richard Britnell, English Historical Review Briggs must be congratulated for this carefully argued and painstakingly researched monograph, His deft and throrough questioning of his source material reveals in full the problematic nature of his data and, as a result, the tentative nature of his conclusions, but it also reminds us how wonderfully imaginative medieval historians can be. Judith Spicksley, Rural History [An] important and stimulating study. Miriam Muller, Reviews in History ...studious and convincing work...a welter of evidence...he has uncovered [...] the first visible signs of a process with deep roots... Alex Burghart, Times Literary Supplement an important study ... an optimistic view of the medieval English countryside, which provides an effective counterblast to those who regard the peasantry as expolited, impoverished, and unsophisticated. Mark Page, Southern History