Open Access Edition of The Medieval Economy of Salvation: Charity, Commerce, and the Rise of the Hospital by Adam J. Davis

FAIN: DR-285045-22

Cornell University (Ithaca, NY 14850-2820)
Jane Frances Bunker (Project Director: July 2021 to January 2025)

This project will publish the book The Medieval Economy of Salvation, written by NEH Fellow Adam J. Davis (NEH grant number FB-56852-13), in an electronic open access format under the Creative Commons license CC BY-ND 4.0, making it available for free download and distribution. The author will be paid a royalty of at least $500 upon release of the open access ebook.

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The Medieval Economy of Salvation: Charity, Commerce, and the Rise of the Hospital (Open Access eBook or Collection)
Title: The Medieval Economy of Salvation: Charity, Commerce, and the Rise of the Hospital
Year: 2019
ISBN: 9781501742125
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Author: Adam J. Davis
Abstract: 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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