Religious poverty and the profit economy in medieval Europe
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Religious poverty and the profit economy in medieval Europe
（Cornell paperbacks）
Cornell University Press, 1983, c1978
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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"In this stimulating and important book Lester Little advances the original thesis that, paradoxically, it was the leading practitioners of voluntary poverty, Franciscan and Dominican friars, who finally formulated a Christian ethic which justified the activities of merchants, moneylenders, and other urban professionals, and created a Christian spirituality suitable for townsmen. Little has synthesized a vast body of specialized literature in Italian, German, French, and English to write an interpretive essay which pro- vides a new perspective on the interaction between economic and social forces and the religious movements advocating the apostolic ideal of voluntary poverty....Little's book is a major contribution, not only to the history of the religious movement of voluntary poverty, but also to the interdisciplinary study of the middle ages." -Journal of Social History
Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction
Part I: The Spiritual Crisis of Medieval Urban Culture
1. From gift economy to profit economy
2. Adapting to the profit economy
3. The Jewish in Christian Europe
Part II: Avoiding the Crisis: Monks and Hermits
4. The old order
5. The new Egypt
6. The new monastery
Part III: Confronting the Crisis: Canons, Laymen and Friars
7. The regular canons
8. The Humiliati, Waldensians, Beguines and Cathars
9. The Franciscans and Dominicans
Part IV: The Formation of an Urban Spirituality
10. Scholastic social thought
11. A reformed apostolate
12. Urban religious life
Conclusion
Notes
Index
by "Nielsen BookData"