Description
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.
Author: Adam J. Davis
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 04/15/2021
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.09lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75d
ISBN13: 9781501755248
ISBN10: 1501755242
BISAC Categories:
- Medical | Health Care Delivery
- History | Europe | Medieval
- Medical | History
About the Author
Adam J. Davis is Professor of History and Director of the Lisska Center for Scholarly Engagement at Denison University. He is the author of The Holy Bureaucrat. Follow him on Twitter @AdamJDavis2.