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oapen-20.500.12657-747652023-08-03T09:20:17Z The Medieval Economy of Salvation Davis, Adam J. France, Christianity, religious culture, Champagne France bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History::HBL History: earliest times to present day::HBLC Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500::HBLC1 Medieval history 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. 2023-08-03T09:20:16Z 2023-08-03T09:20:16Z 2019 book ONIX_20230803_9781501742118_3 9781501742118 9781501755248 9781501742101 9781501742125 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/74765 eng application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9781501742118.pdf http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501742101/the-medieval-economy-of-salvation Cornell University Press Cornell University Press 10.7298/y5dv-nv45 10.7298/y5dv-nv45 06a447d4-1d09-460f-8b1d-3b4b09d64407 9781501742118 9781501755248 9781501742101 9781501742125 Cornell University Press 336 Ithaca open access
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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.
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