Poverty and Prosperity in the Middle Ages and Renaissance
A. Scott,
C. Kosso (eds.)
XXIV+336 p., 1 b/w ill., 156 x 234 mm, 2012
ISBN: 978-2-503-53032-1
Languages: English
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Online content: http://dx.doi.org/10.1484/M.ASMAR-EB.6.09070802050003050300030201
The essays presented in this volume contribute substantially to the
study of the economy and attitudes towards poverty and wealth
during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.
The dichotomous topics, 'poverty and prosperity', 'rich and
poor', continue to interest scholars, politicians, and philosophers
while also appealing to a wide general audience, and are
particularly of interest today. In this volume, the authors raise
and try to answer questions about the ways in which individuals,
families, ethnic and religious groups and nations 500, 1000, or
even 1500, years ago approached the idea of economic status and
personal worth. The interdisciplinary nature of this volume
provides an analysis of poverty and prosperity from a multitude of
perspectives and within a host of secular and religious literature:
historical treatises, scholastic works, art, travellers' and
political accounts. Through its breadth, depth, and
interdisciplinary focus, the present volume makes a full
contribution to the topic for anyone interested in how people in
the past have experienced these states.
Table of Contents
- Cynthia Kosso & Anne Scott, Introduction
I. Poverty and Morality:
- Alicia McKensie, Model Rulers and Royal Misers: Public Morality among the Merovingian Aristocracy
- Roy Neil Graves, Living on Loss: Poverty and Wealth in Shakespeare’s Sonnets
- Rev. Dr. Jayson S. Galler, A Sham, Pretense, and Hypocrisy? Poverty in The Book of Concord of 1580
- Christian D. Knudsen, Promiscuous Monks and Naughty Nuns: Poverty, Sex and Apostasy in Later Medieval England
II. Charity and Almsgiving:
- Eliza Buhrer, From Caritas to Charity: How Loving God Became Giving Alms
- Matthew T. Sneider, The Bonds of Charity—Charitable and Liturgical Obligations in Bolognese Testaments
- Mark R. Cohen, Poverty and Charity: Jews in the Medieval Islamic World
- Charles W. Connell, The Voice of the Poor and the Tin Ear of Nineteenth-Century English Medievalism
III. Spirituality and Institutional Organizations:
- Rosemarie McGerr, Comparing Spiritual and Material Goods: Poverty and Prosperity in The Pilgrimage of the Soul and Everyman
- Jonathan Robinson, Innocent IV, John XXII, and the Michaelists on Corporate Poverty
- J. Eugene Clay, Traders, Vagabonds, Incarnate Christs, and Pilgrims: The Religious Network of Danilo Filippov, 1650-1850
- Ada-Maria Kuskowski, The Poor, the Secular Courts, and Access to Justice in Thirteenth-Century France
IV. Monetary and Literary Economies and Greed:
- Tiffany Beechy, Rich or Poor?: Alfred’s Prose Boethius and the Poetic Economy of Anglo-Saxon Exposition
- Ron Cooley, Wealth, Weber, and Whig Historiography: Reading George Herbert’s “Business”
- Sally Livingston, The Economy of the Turnip: Contributions of the Rapularius to the Medieval Debate on Greed”
- Heather Martel, Ferocious Appetites: Hunger, Nakedness and Identity in Sixteenth-Century American Encounters
Review
« Le volume s’intéresse aussi bien au haut Moyen Âge qu’au XVIIe siècle, à l’Angleterre qu’à l’Égypte fatimide, et inclut même, ce qui est heureux, une contribution sur la place des pauvres dans le « médiévalisme » anglais du XIXe siècle (C.W. Connell). » (Jean Claustre-Mayade, dans : Le Moyen Âge, 3-4/2014, Tome CXIX, p. 756)
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