The Medieval Economy of Salvation: Charity, Commerce, and the Rise of the Hospital

by Adam J Davis and Adam J. Davis

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501742108
• ISBN13: 9781501742101
• Release Date: December 2019
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.4" x 9.4"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher