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

Author/Contributor(s):	Davis, Adam J
Publisher:	Cornell University Press
Date:	12/15/2019
Binding:	Hardcover
Condition:	NEW

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...