The Merchant In The Confessional: Trade And Price In The Pre-reformation Penitential Handbooks (studies In Medieval And Reformation Traditions)
by Odd Langholm /
2003 / English / PDF
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This volume deals with norms relating to trade and price expressed
in handbooks designed for the education of confessors or as aids in
the confessional. Parts 1 and 2 trace the development of such norms
from the earliest times to the Reformation. Some 90 penitential
handbooks are analyzed, with biographical sketches of the authors.
Part 3 provides a general overview of penitential trade and price
doctrine with emphasis on the late major Italian summas and
compares this doctrine with secular economic thought in the
Renaissance and later. The main contribution of this book to the
history of thought is its examination of economic activity from the
point of view of sin and penance as taught by the mediaeval Church.
This volume deals with norms relating to trade and price expressed
in handbooks designed for the education of confessors or as aids in
the confessional. Parts 1 and 2 trace the development of such norms
from the earliest times to the Reformation. Some 90 penitential
handbooks are analyzed, with biographical sketches of the authors.
Part 3 provides a general overview of penitential trade and price
doctrine with emphasis on the late major Italian summas and
compares this doctrine with secular economic thought in the
Renaissance and later. The main contribution of this book to the
history of thought is its examination of economic activity from the
point of view of sin and penance as taught by the mediaeval Church.
