.... This book's study of the emergence of hospitals in Champagne casts new light on the nature of religious charity during Europe's first great age of commerce. It demonstrates that far from eroding the power of the gift, the new commercial economy infused charitable giving and service with new social...

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...This book 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, the book looks at the ways...