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.

About the Author

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 Etudes Anglaises; and William Shakespeare & 21st Century Culture, Politics, and Leadership with Anthony Russell.

Book Information
ISBN 9780367536756
Author Scott Oldenburg
Format Paperback
Page Count 218
Imprint Routledge
Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
Weight(grams) 426g