Trust, guilds, and kinship in london, 1330–1680

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• What: The authors examine almost 15,000 networks of sureties created to secure orphans` inheritances to measure the presence of trusting relationships connected by guild membership, family, and place. The authors examine the social foundations of trust among the middling and elite of one of Europe`s major cities, London, from the 1330s to the 1680s. The analysis explores the social, institutional, and spatial contexts that generated and sustained trust, through the agreements that secured the inheritances of children whose fathers, like James Walmesley, had died while they were minors. As liability was joint the authors evaluate . . .
  

   

  

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