THE RANSOM OF THE SOUL / AFTERLIFE AND WEALTH IN EARLY WESTERN CHRISTIANITY

Marking a departure in our understanding of Christian views of the afterlife from 250 to 650 CE, The Ransom of the Soul explores a r evolutionary shift in thinking about the fate of the soul that occurred around the time of Romes fall. Peter Brown describes how th is shift transformed the Churchs institutional relationship to money and set the stage for its domination of medieval society in th e West...