🏛️ Palace of Commerce uncovers what happened when fortunes crumbled in seventeenth-century Amsterdam – even for Rembrandt!

Behind a marble door in today’s Royal Palace, insolvent debtors faced not shame, but a second chance. In the Chamber of Insolvent and Abandoned Estates, commissioners and their staff worked to resolve financial collapse with surprising nuance.

📖 Watch the trailer, and join Bob Wessels and me to discover how Amsterdam handled insolvency – amidst rats, ledgers, and justice!

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dr. Maurits den Hollander

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