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Project

The Lure of Lady Luck: lotteries and economic culture in the fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Low Countries.

This project analyzes lotteries to determine the boundaries between investing and gambling in the pre-industrial Low Countries. The project will reveal perceptions of and attitudes towards risk in conditions of economic uncertainty and considers the economic culture of the late middle ages and the early modern period.
Date:1 Oct 2013 →  30 Sep 2016
Keywords:LOTTERIES, LOW COUNTRIES, 15TH-16TH CENTURY
Disciplines:Economic history, History
Project type:Collaboration project