IsisCB Explore

Book ID: CBB606566239

The Medieval Economy of Salvation: Charity, Commerce, and the Rise of the Hospital (2019)

Davis, Adam J. (Author)

Cornell University Press
Publication date: 2019
Language: English

ISBN: 9781501742101

Publication Date: 2019
Physical Details: 336

Outside Links

PubMed

WorldCat

Google Scholar

Google Books

Christianity Institutionalization Medicine and society Medicine and religion Charity Hospitals and clinics 13th century 12th century Europe

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.

...More

Reviewed By

Review Joseph P. Huffman (2023) Review of "The Medieval Economy of Salvation: Charity, Commerce, and the Rise of the Hospital". American Historical Review (pp. 546-547). unapi

Review Elma Brenner (2023) Review of "The Medieval Economy of Salvation: Charity, Commerce, and the Rise of the Hospital". Bulletin of the History of Medicine (pp. 158-160). unapi

Review Anne E. Lester (2021) Review of "The Medieval Economy of Salvation: Charity, Commerce, and the Rise of the Hospital". Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences (pp. 103-105). unapi

Citation URI

data.isiscb.org/p/isis/citation/CBB606566239

This citation is part of the Isis database.

Citations Indexes

Similar Citations

Thesis Rebecca Lampert Golding; (2022)
Visualizing Medicine in the Twelfth Century: Bodily Disease, Spiritual Cure, and Christian Salvation (/p/isis/citation/CBB898121101/)

Article Ernesto Riva; (2019)
Il difficile cammino della materia medica presso i monaci dell’alto medioevo (/p/isis/citation/CBB812510771/)

Book Donna Trembinski; (2020)
Illness and Authority: Disability in the Life and Lives of Francis of Assisi (/p/isis/citation/CBB772732322/)

Article Francesco Bianchi; (2024)
Healthcare and Medicine in Medieval Western Hospitals (/p/isis/citation/CBB919434339/)

Book Elisa Novi Chavarria; (2020)
Accogliere e curare. Ospedali e culture delle nazioni nella Monarchia ispanica (secc. XVI-XVII) (/p/isis/citation/CBB491582261/)

Article Robert, Aurélien; (2013)
Épicure et les épicuriens au Moyen Âge (/p/isis/citation/CBB001420825/)

Book Ibn Baklarish, Yusuf ibn Ishaq; Burnett, Charles; (2008)
Ibn Baklarish's Book of Simples: Medical Remedies between Three Faiths in Twelfth-Century Spain (/p/isis/citation/CBB000954818/)

Book Ahmed Ragab; (2015)
The Medieval Islamic Hospital: Medicine, Religion, and Charity (/p/isis/citation/CBB544109501/)

Thesis Struckmeyer, Myra; (2006)
Female Hospitallers in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries (/p/isis/citation/CBB001561681/)

Article Shane Doyle; Felix Meier zu Selhausen; Jacob Weisdorf; (2020)
The Blessings of Medicine? Patient Characteristics and Health Outcomes in a Ugandan Mission Hospital, 1908–1970 (/p/isis/citation/CBB251207238/)

Book Bourin, Monique; Lejbowicz, Max; (2009)
Une conquête des savoirs: les traductions dans l'Europe latine (fin du XIe siècle-milieu du XIIIe siècle): colloque organisé à la Fondation Singer-Polignac, le jeudi 27 novembre 2008 (/p/isis/citation/CBB001210399/)

Chapter Alessandra Fiocca; (2015)
Il "Bullettino Boncompagni" e la riscoperta della matematica medievale (/p/isis/citation/CBB556469102/)

Chapter Carmela Baffioni; (2012)
Un'argomentazione sillogistica nell'embriologia delle "Mabāhith al-mashriqiyya" di Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzî (/p/isis/citation/CBB498971232/)

Chapter Nicola Battelli; Emanuele Curzel; (2014)
I codici minerari trentini (/p/isis/citation/CBB452143212/)

Article Boudet, Jean-Patrice; (2013)
Ptolémée dans l'Occident médiéval: roi, savant et philosophe (/p/isis/citation/CBB001420832/)

Article Sébastien Moureau; (2020)
Min al-Kīmiyā’ ad Alchimiam. The Transmission of Alchemy from the Arab-Muslim world to the Latin West in the Middle Ages (/p/isis/citation/CBB807352731/)

Chapter Joëlle Ricordel; (2012)
L'utilisation raisonnée des sources dans les manuels andalousiens de pharmacologie: l'exemple du kitāb al-musta 'īnī d'Ibn Biklāriš (/p/isis/citation/CBB037928833/)

Book Erik Kwakkel; Rodney Thomson; (2018)
The European Book in the Twelfth Century (/p/isis/citation/CBB838163451/)

Book Thomson, Rodney M.; Luscombe, D. E.; (2011)
Catalogue of Medieval Manuscripts of Latin Commentaries on Aristotle in British Libraries (/p/isis/citation/CBB001200491/)

Chapter Mitchell, Piers D.; (2011)
The Spread of Disease with the Crusades (/p/isis/citation/CBB001251757/)