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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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Keywords
- Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500
- History
- History: earliest times to present day
- Humanities
- Medieval history
- thema EDItEUR::3 Time period qualifiers::3K CE period up to c 1500
- thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology
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DOI: 10.7298/y5dv-nv45Editions