Category: court, credit, and capital
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Brill has just published the book Debt or Sin? The Moral Roots of European Legal and Economic Thought, edited by Wim Decock and Wouter Druwé. The volume includes a contribution by dr. Maurits den Hollander titled ‘Debt and Insolvency in Early Modern Amsterdam: Religious Influences on the Desolate Boedelskamer?’. In the seventeenth-century Dutch Republic, a…
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Brill has just published “𝐋𝐚𝐰 𝐚𝐬 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐜𝐞? 𝐃𝐞𝐛𝐭 𝐀𝐝𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐒𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐦𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐝𝐚𝐦 𝐄𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐦𝐲 (𝐒𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐡 𝐂𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐲)” by dr. Maurits den Hollander as part of the new volume ‘Amsterdam: Sovereignty and Legal Agency of a 17th-Century Commercial City’, edited by Dave De ruysscher and Janne E. Nijman. The contribution examines insolvency practices in seventeenth-century Amsterdam as…
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On Sunday 10 May 2026, dr. Maurits den Hollander was awarded the Human Solvency Prize 2024-2026 for his book Court, Credit, and Capital. Amsterdam’s Insolvency Legislation in the Dutch Golden Age (Cambridge University Press, 2025) [link]. The biennial prize was granted by the Fondazione Istituto Internazionale di Storia Economica F. Datini, during the opening of…
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On Tuesday 28 October 2025, dr. Maurits den Hollander was invited for a lecture by Forum Romanum, the legal historical society co-hosted by the VU and UvA universities in Amsterdam. He talked about his recently published book Court, Credit, and Capital (CUP 2025), discussing how important innovations in seventeenth-century Amsterdam’s insolvency legislation could contribute to…
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On 16 October 2025, Cambridge University Press published a monograph by dr. Maurits den Hollander. 📘 𝘊𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘵, 𝘊𝘳𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘵, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘊𝘢𝘱𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘭: 𝘈𝘮𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘥𝘢𝘮’𝘴 𝘐𝘯𝘴𝘰𝘭𝘷𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘺 𝘓𝘦𝘨𝘪𝘴𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘋𝘶𝘵𝘤𝘩 𝘎𝘰𝘭𝘥𝘦𝘯 𝘈𝘨𝘦 explores how important innovations in insolvency legislation contributed to seventeenth-century Amsterdam’s economic success. Moving beyond the traditional moral condemnation of insolvents, the city’s specialized insolvency court introduced…