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oapen-20.500.12657-528902022-07-21T14:01:55Z The Christian Economy of the Early Medieval West Wood, Ian Church history;early middle ages;economic history;late antiquity;Mediterranean;religion and power;Temple Society bic Book Industry Communication::3 Time periods qualifiers bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HR Religion & beliefs::HRC Christianity::HRCC Christian Churches & denominations::HRCC2 Church history bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HR Religion & beliefs::HRC Christianity::HRCV Christian life & practice bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences bic Book Industry Communication::K Economics, finance, business & management::KC Economics::KCZ Economic history bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History::HBJ Regional & national history::HBJD European history The establishment of Christianity in the late- and post-Roman world caused an economic as well as a religious revolution, but, while a great deal of attention has been paid to the religious developments of the period, the impact of the establishment of the Church on the economy has attracted remarkably little attention. The Christian Economy of the Early Medieval West: Towards a Temple Society examines the chronology of the Church’s acquisition of wealth, and particularly of landed property, as well as the distribution of its income, in the period between the conversion of Constantine and the eighth century. In this book, the society that emerged as a result of the Church’s acquisition of land is interpreted in the light of the anthropological model of the “Temple Society,” a concept developed from Karl Marx’s so-called “Asiatic Mode of Production.” The emergence of a socio-economic system dominated by the Church is presented as a crucial development in the history of western Europe. 2022-02-16T14:48:00Z 2022-02-16T14:48:00Z 2022 book 9781685710262 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/52890 eng application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International 0371.1.00.pdf https://punctumbooks.com/punctum/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/210704templesociety-cover-web-front.jpg punctum books Gracchi Books 10.53288/0371.1.00 10.53288/0371.1.00 979dc044-00ee-4ea2-affc-b08c5bd42d13 9781685710262 ScholarLed Gracchi Books 240 Brooklyn, NY open access
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The establishment of Christianity in the late- and post-Roman world caused an economic as well as a religious revolution, but, while a great deal of attention has been paid to the religious developments of the period, the impact of the establishment of the Church on the economy has attracted remarkably little attention. The Christian Economy of the Early Medieval West: Towards a Temple Society examines the chronology of the Church’s acquisition of wealth, and particularly of landed property, as well as the distribution of its income, in the period between the conversion of Constantine and the eighth century.
In this book, the society that emerged as a result of the Church’s acquisition of land is interpreted in the light of the anthropological model of the “Temple Society,” a concept developed from Karl Marx’s so-called “Asiatic Mode of Production.” The emergence of a socio-economic system dominated by the Church is presented as a crucial development in the history of western Europe.
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