1st Edition

Religion and the Medieval and Early Modern Global Marketplace

Edited By Scott Oldenburg, Kristin M. S. Bezio Copyright 2022
230 Pages 18 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

230 Pages 18 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

230 Pages 18 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Religion and the Medieval and Early Modern Global Marketplace brings together scholars from a variety of disciplines to examine the intersection, conflict, and confluence of religion and the market before 1700. Each chapter analyzes the unique interplay of faith and economy in a different locale: Syria, Ethiopia, France, Iceland, India, Peru, and beyond. In ten case studies, specialists of... Read more

Introduction

Scott Oldenburg

1. Render unto Caesar: Religious Thought, Trade, and Secular Authority in Groningen during the Dutch Golden Age

David Beeler

2. The Market that Binds Us: Religious Exchange in Medieval Syria-Palestine

Ian R. Simpson

3. King Enrique IV of Castilla and the Christian Underpinnings of His Letter on Trade Fairs

Manuel Ortuño

4. Material and providential economies in Montaigne’s Essais

Sara Aponte-Olivieri

5. "The Inscrutable Customes of the Country": Thomas Roe, Edward Terry, and the Early Indian Marketplace

Maya Mathur

6. "Moving Images": Marketing the Sacred in Viceregal Rural Peru

Sara González Castrejón

7. Sanctity, Anti-Judaism, and the Early Market Economy

Anne L. Williams

8. Timeo hiberos et cruces ferentes: Jesuit Missiology as Iberian Colonialism in Early Modern Abyssinia

Luis Salés

9. Racialized sacred spaces: Studying commodifications of race in Þingeyrar, Iceland (c.1470-1700)

Lorenz Hindrichsen

10. The Miracle of the Black Leg: Medical Knowledge, Race + Territorialization

Cecilio M. Cooper

Epilogue

Kristin M. S. Bezio

Biography

Scott Oldenburg specializes in early modern literature and culture at Tulane University. He is the author of Alien Albion: Literature and Immigration in Early Modern England and A Weaver-Poet and the Plague: Labor, Poverty, and the Household in Shakespeare’s London as well as articles on various early modern topics.

Kristin M. S. Bezio is an Associate Professor at the University of Richmond. Publications include Staging Power in Tudor and Stuart English History Plays; “Munday I Sweare Shalbee a Hollidaye” in Études Anglaises; and William Shakespeare & 21st Century Culture, Politics, and Leadership with Anthony Russell.