The Ransom of the Soul. Afterlife and Wealth in Early Western Christianity. - P. Brown
Afterlife and Wealth in Early Western Christianity
KORTE INHOUD
?This book is about Christian attitudes toward the religious use of wealth within the context of interaction between the living and the dead between the time of Tertullian (ca. 160-240) and Julian of Toledo (late seventh century). The result is a stimulating, evocative, though sometimes impressionistic, study of the ways that late antique and early medieval Christians deployed their wealth through charitable giving for the benefit of their own souls and the souls of their loved ones, living and deceased. The book?s five chapters and long epilogue proceed chronologically, but all fall neatly into two parts. The first half of the book is a Mediterranean enterprise. (?) The second half of the book plants itself firmly in early medieval Gaul, where with and sixth-century authors provide the clearest guide to the reception of Augustine?s ideas about the human should and the use of world wealth. (?) Over time, Augustine?s ideas about the importance of Christian charity to the poor ?hardened ? into a full-blown ideo...
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2018Uitgever: Harvard University Press288 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 0674983971ISBN-13: 9780674983977Koop dit boek tweedehands
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Cambridge (Mass.) / London, 2018. 1st paperback ed. XIX,262p. Paperback. [New] [Auteur: BROWN, P.,] [Uitgever: Harvard University Press] [Jaar: 2018] [Titel: The Ransom of the Soul. Afterlife and Wealth in Early Western Christianity.]
