An Economic Analysis of the Early Medieval Church
Sonja Langley
Broschiertes Buch

An Economic Analysis of the Early Medieval Church

Technology, Consanguinity and the Sale of Marriage Dispensations

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Having been described as a rent-seeking monopoly firm, the Church of the High Middle Ages spent a thousand years reaching its pinnacle of power. Over this period, as this fledgling religion took root throughout Europe, the Early Medieval Church saw political, social, economic and institutional factors slowly evolve in her favor. Controlling the acceptance and dissemination of technology, the Early Medieval Church may have utilized her imposition of consanguinity rules as a means of controlling the growth rate of her adherents. A protracted conversion process and the persistence of paganism may...