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The Ransom of the Soul: Afterlife and Wealth in Early Western Christianity
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Release Year
- 2018
- ISBN
- 9780674983977
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Harvard University Press
ISBN-10
0674983971
ISBN-13
9780674983977
eBay Product ID (ePID)
240013654
Product Key Features
Book Title
Ransom of the Soul : Afterlife and Wealth in Early Western Christianity
Number of Pages
288 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2018
Topic
Ancient / General, Christianity / History, Afterlife & Reincarnation, Economics / General, Europe / Medieval
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Body, Mind & Spirit, Religion, Business & Economics, History
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
13.1 Oz
Item Length
8.2 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
236.2
Synopsis
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year A Tablet Book of the Year Marking a departure in our understanding of Christian views of the afterlife from 250 to 650 CE, The Ransom of the Soul explores a revolutionary shift in thinking about the fate of the soul that occurred around the time of Rome's fall. Peter Brown describes how this shift transformed the Church's institutional relationship to money and set the stage for its domination of medieval society in the West. " An] extraordinary new book...Prodigiously original--an astonishing performance for a historian who has already been so prolific and influential...Peter Brown's subtle and incisive tracking of the role of money in Christian attitudes toward the afterlife not only breaks down traditional geographical and chronological boundaries across more than four centuries. It provides wholly new perspectives on Christianity itself, its evolution, and, above all, its discontinuities. It demonstrates why the Middle Ages, when they finally arrived, were so very different from late antiquity." --G. W. Bowersock, New York Review of Books "Peter Brown's explorations of the mindsets of late antiquity have been educating us for nearly half a century...Brown shows brilliantly in this book how the future life of Christians beyond the grave was influenced in particular by money. --A. N. Wilson, The Spectator, A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year A Tablet Book of the Year Marking a departure in our understanding of Christian views of the afterlife from 250 to 650 CE, The Ransom of the Soul explores a revolutionary shift in thinking about the fate of the soul that occurred around the time of Rome's fall. Peter Brown describes how this shift transformed the Church's institutional relationship to money and set the stage for its domination of medieval society in the West. "[An] extraordinary new book...Prodigiously original--an astonishing performance for a historian who has already been so prolific and influential...Peter Brown's subtle and incisive tracking of the role of money in Christian attitudes toward the afterlife not only breaks down traditional geographical and chronological boundaries across more than four centuries. It provides wholly new perspectives on Christianity itself, its evolution, and, above all, its discontinuities. It demonstrates why the Middle Ages, when they finally arrived, were so very different from late antiquity." --G. W. Bowersock, New York Review of Books "Peter Brown's explorations of the mindsets of late antiquity have been educating us for nearly half a century...Brown shows brilliantly in this book how the future life of Christians beyond the grave was influenced in particular by money. --A. N. Wilson, The Spectator
LC Classification Number
BT821.3.B76 2018
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