Of Bondage: Debt, Property and Personhood in Early Modern England by Amanda Bailey
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Overview: The late sixteenth-century penal debt bond, which allowed an unsatisfied creditor to seize the body of his debtor, set in motion a series of precedents that would haunt the legal, philosophical, and moral problem of property-in-person in England and America for centuries. Focusing on a historical juncture at which debt litigation was not merely an aspect of society but seemed to engulf it completely, “Of Bondage” examines a culture that understood money and the body of the borrower as comparable forms of property that impinged on one another at the moment of default.Amanda Bailey shows that the early modern theater, itself dependent on debt bonds, was uniquely positioned to stage the complex ethical issues raised by a system of forfeiture that registered as a bodily event. While plays about debt like “The Merchant of Venice” and “The Custom of the Country” did not speak in the language of political philosophy, they were artistically and financially invested in exploring freedom as a function of possession.
Genre: Non-Fiction, Sociology, History
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