Our Daily Bread: Christian Economies in the Early Medieval West

我们的日粮：中世纪早期西方的基督教经济

• 批准号: 525694723
• 负责人: Professor Dr. Steffen Patzold
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Seminar für Alte Geschichte
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 资助国家: 德国
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/525694723?language=en
• 关键词: Our; Daily; Bread; Christian; Economies

Early medieval economy cannot be understood without acknowledging the role of the churches as rightful, widespread and fully fledged institutions, nor indeed can the churches contribution to the formation of medieval society be properly appreciated without considering the surrounding economic infrastructures of the many churches, abbeys and seats of religious authorities scattered all over Europe. Christianity had a socioeconomic and political impact that stretched far beyond its obvious religious importance: it was in fact a rather significant factor in remarking the distinction between the Roman Empire, in which religion contributed to the economic life in a substantial, but structurally different way, and the post-Roman period, in which churches played a major part in the processes of wealth accumulation and distribution. In this joint-project, we envisage Christian economy from the seventh to the early ninth century to be inherently different when compared to its germinal phase in the fourth-century Empire. Moreover, Christian economy was also susceptible to change within its own boundaries, depending on region and time, in the three centuries from 600 to 900, thus reflecting what Peter Brown has defined as the social variety of Micro-Christendoms.

如果不承认教会作为合法的、广泛的和完全成熟的机构的作用，就不能理解中世纪早期的经济，如果不考虑分散在欧洲各地的许多教堂、修道院和宗教当局所在地的周围经济基础设施，就不能正确地理解教会对中世纪社会形成的贡献。基督教对社会经济和政治的影响远远超出了其明显的宗教重要性：它实际上是区分罗马帝国和后罗马时期的一个相当重要的因素，在罗马帝国，宗教以一种实质性的但结构上不同的方式促进了经济生活，在后罗马时期，教会在财富积累和分配过程中发挥了重要作用。在这个联合项目中，我们设想，从7世纪到世纪早期的基督教经济，与4世纪世纪帝国的萌芽阶段相比，有着本质上的不同。此外，在600年至900年的三个世纪里，基督教经济也容易在其自身的边界内发生变化，这取决于地区和时间，从而反映了彼得·布朗所定义的“微型基督教”的社会多样性。