Managing Financial Resources in Late Antiquity

Greek Fathers' Views on Hoarding and Saving

AvGerasimos Merianos,George Gotsis

Inbunden, Engelska, 2018

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Beskrivning

This book examines the views of Greek Church Fathers on hoarding, saving, and management of economic surplus, and their development primarily in urban centres of the Eastern Mediterranean, from the late first to the fifth century.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2018-04-03
Mått:148 x 210 x 20 mm
Vikt:468 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:New Approaches to Byzantine History and Culture
Antal sidor:257
Upplaga:18001
Förlag:Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN:9781137564085

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Gerasimos Merianos is Senior Researcher in Byzantine History at the Institute of Historical Research of the National Hellenic Research Foundation, Athens, Greece.George Gotsis is Associate Professor of Economics in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece.

Innehållsförteckning

Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Historical Background: Early Christian Conceptions of Hoarding.- Chapter 3. Justifying Savings but not the Pursuit of Wealth: Contradictions, Tensions and Accommodations in Early Patristic Texts.- Chapter 4. Savings for Redistributive Purposes: Stewardship of Wealth in the Teachings of Basil of Caesarea and John Chrysostom.- Chapter 5. Fifth-Century Patristic Conceptions of Savings and Capital: Isidore of Pelusium and Theodoret of Cyrrhus.- Chapter 6. Contextualizing Patristic Concepts of Hoarding and Saving.- Chapter 7. Conclusions.- Bibliography.- Index.