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The Ransom of the Soul: Afterlife and Wealth in Early Western Christianity

English

By (author): Peter Brown

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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 Romes fall. Peter Brown describes how this shift transformed the Churchs institutional relationship to money and set the stage for its domination of medieval society in the West.

[An] extraordinary new bookProdigiously originalan astonishing performance for a historian who has already been so prolific and influentialPeter Browns 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 Browns explorations of the mindsets of late antiquity have been educating us for nearly half a centuryBrown 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

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Product Details
  • Publication Date: 11 Jun 2018
  • Publisher: Harvard University Press
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780674983977

About Peter Brown

Peter Brown is Philip and Beulah Rollins Professor of History Emeritus at Princeton University.

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