The Medieval Economy of Salvation : : Charity, Commerce, and the Rise of the Hospital / / Adam J. Davis.
In The Medieval Economy of Salvation, Adam J. Davis shows how the burgeoning commercial economy of western Europe in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, alongside an emerging culture of Christian charity, led to the establishment of hundreds of hospitals and leper houses. Focusing on the county of...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019] ©2019 |
Year of Publication: | 2019 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (336 p.) :; 5 b&w halftones, 1 map |
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Other title: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- A Note on Monies and Measures -- Introduction: A Charitable Revolution in an Age of Commerce -- 1. Medieval Understandings of Charity: From Penance to Commerce -- 2. The Creation of a Charitable Landscape -- 3. Hospital Patrons and Social Networks -- 4. Managing a Hospital’s Property -- 5. “In Service of the Poor”: Hospital Personnel in Pursuit of Security -- 6. The Sick Poor and the Economy of Care -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Summary: | In The Medieval Economy of Salvation, Adam J. Davis shows how the burgeoning commercial economy of western Europe in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, alongside an emerging culture of Christian charity, led to the establishment of hundreds of hospitals and leper houses. Focusing on the county of Champagne, he looks at the ways in which charitable organizations and individuals—townspeople, merchants, aristocrats, and ecclesiastics—saw in these new institutions a means of infusing charitable giving and service with new social significance and heightened expectations of spiritual rewards.In tracing the rise of the medieval hospital during a period of intense urbanization and the transition from a gift economy to a commercial one, Davis makes clear how embedded this charitable institution was in the wider social, cultural, religious, and economic fabric of medieval life. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9781501742118 9783110651980 9783110610765 9783110664232 9783110610178 9783110606195 |
DOI: | 10.1515/9781501742118?locatt=mode:legacy |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | Adam J. Davis. |