Religion and the Medieval and Early Modern Global Marketplace

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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 archaeology, art history, social and economic history, religious studies, and critical theory address issues of secularization, tolerance, colonialism, and race with a fresh focus. They chart the tensions between religious and economic thought in specific locales or texts, the complex ways that religion and economy interacted with one another, and the way in which matters of faith, economy, and race converge in religious images of the pre- and early modern periods. Considering the intersection of faith and economy, the volume questions the legacy of early modern economic and spiritual exceptionalism, and the ways in which prosperity still entangles itself with righteousness. The interdisciplinary nature means that this volume is the perfect resource for advanced undergraduates, postgraduates, and scholars working across multiple areas including history, literature, politics, art history, global studies, philosophy, and gender studies in the medieval and early modern periods. Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Contents List of figures List of contributors Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Render unto Caesar: Religious thought, trade, and secular authority in Groningen during the Dutch Golden Age 2. The market that binds us: Religious exchange in medieval Syria-Palestine 3. King Enrique IV of Castilla and the christian underpinnings of his letter on trade fairs 4. Material and providential economies in Montaigne’s Essais 5. Barbarous Customes: Mughal Might and Anglican Virtue in the Journals of Thomas Roe and Edward Terry 6. Moving images: Marketing the sacred in viceregal rural Peru 7. Sanctity, anti-Judaism, and the early market economy 8. Timeo hiberos et cruces ferentes: Jesuit missiology as Iberian colonialism in early modern Abyssinia 9. Racialized sacred spaces: Commodifications of race in Þingeyrar, Iceland (c.1470-1700) 10. The Miracle of the Black Leg: Medical knowledge, race + territorialization Epilogue Index