"This volume presents articles on economic issues in the Holy Roman Empire. The specific themes examined here are monetary and regulatory policy, fundraising through lottery games, gambling debts, canonical prohibition of interest and Rentenkauf (purchase of a right to periodic payments), trade and trade prohibitions, guilds, allodification of military tenure, limitation of liability for women in the case of bankruptcy, debit commission, corruption at the Imperial Chamber Court and incomes of the judges at the Reichshofrat. The court decisions of the Imperial Chamber Court, the Reichshofrat and the Wismar Tribunal are assessed for the first time."--Publisher's website.