Medieval Economy of Salvation

J. Davis Adam

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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.

Sujets

• Philosophie et théologie
• Christian Church
• Middle Ages
• History of medicine
• History of religions

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• Publié par: Cornell University Press
• Date de parution: 15 décembre 2019
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781501742118
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 3 Mo

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 THE MEDIEVAL ECONOMY OF SALVATION

THEMEDIEVAL ECONOMY OF SALVATION n CHARITY,COMMERCE, AND T HE RI SE OF T HE HOSPI TAL

A d a m J . D a v i s

CORNELLUNIVERSITYPRESS Ithaca and London

Open access edition funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Copyright © 2019 by Cornell University

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First paperback printing 2021. Printed with corrections. First published 2019 by Cornell University Press

Library of Congress CataloginginPublication Data Names: Davis, Adam Jeffrey, 1973– author. Title: The medieval economy of salvation : charity,  commerce, and the rise of the hospital / Adam J. Davis. Description: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2019. | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2019006494 (print) | LCCN 2019008000  (ebook) | ISBN 9781501742118 (pdf ) | ISBN 9781501742125  (epub/mobi) | ISBN 9781501742101 | ISBN 9781501742101  (cloth) Subjects: LCSH: Hospitals, Medieval—France—Champagne  Ardenne—History. | Charities—France—Champagne  Ardenne—History—To 1500. | Charity—Religious  aspects—Christianity—History—To 1500. | Medical  economics—France—ChampagneArdenne—  History—To 1500. Classification: LCC RA989.F73 (ebook) | LCC RA989.F73  C48 2019 (print) | DDC 362.110944/31—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019006494

Cover photograph courtesy of the Bibliotheca Nazionale Marciana, Venice. “Louis IX caring for a sick person in bed.” Manuscript. Ferrer Bassa. Hours of Marie de Navarre, Ven ice, Bibi. Naz. Marc. Ms. Lat. I 104/12640, fol. 191v.

Dedicated,withlove,tomyparents, Toni Hahn Davis and David Brion Davis, who exemplify generosity and kindness

  Co nt e nt s

List of Illustrationsix Acknowledgmentsxi Abbreviationsxiv A Note on Monies and Measuresxv

Introduction:ACharitableRevolution 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

Bibliography285 Index309

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 1. St. Louis feeding the sick, from the Hours of Jeanne d’Evreux, Jean Pucelle (ca. 1324–28)  2. Map of Champagne  3. The hôtelDieu of Provins  4. The martyrological obituary for the hôtelDieu of Provins (1250 with later additions)  5. The interior central ward of the hôtelDieu of Tonnerre  6. A seal representing Magister G. of the hôtelDieu of BarsurAube (1183)

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