Your Money or Your Life - Economy & Religion in The Middle Ages

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Jacques Le Goff

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Paperback / softback

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A concise examination of the problem that usury posed for the medieval Church,. In this book one of the most esteemed contemporary historians of the Middle Ages presents a concise examination of the problem that usury posed for the medieval Church, which had long denounced the lending of money for interest. Jacques Le Goff describes how, as the structure of economic life inevitably began to include financial loans, the Church refashioned its ideology in order to condemn the usurer not to Hell but merely to Purgatory. Le Goff is in the forefront of a history that studies "the deeply rooted and the slowly changing." As one keenly aware of the inertia of older societies, he is all the more able to delineate for us the disruptive forces of change. J

Author Biography:

acques Le Goff is director of the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Science Sociales, Paris, and codirector of the Annales - Economies, Societes, Civilisations. He is the author of The Birth of Purgatory and Time, Work, and Culture.

Release date Australia

November 4th, 1990

Author

Jacques Le Goff

Audiences

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Professional & Vocational
Undergraduate

Country of Publication

United States

Imprint

Zone Books

Interest Age

From 18 years

Pages

120

Publisher

Zone Books

Dimensions

153x228x11

ISBN-13

9780942299151

Product ID

6917734

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