In this book one of the most esteemed contemporary historians of
the Middle Ages presents a concise examination of the problem that
usury posed for the medieval Church, which had long denounced the
lending of money for interest. Jacques Le Goff describes how, as
the structure of economic life inevitably began to include
financial loans, the Church refashioned its ideology in order to
condemn the usurer not to Hell but merely to Purgatory. Le Goff is
in the forefront of a history that studies "the deeply rooted and
the slowly changing." As one keenly aware of the inertia of older
societies, he is all the more able to delineate for us the
disruptive forces of change.Jacques Le Goff is director of the
Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Science Sociales, Paris, and codirector
of the Annales - Economies, Societes, Civilisations. lie is the
author of The Birth of Purgatory and Time, Work, and Culture.
Distributed for Zone Books."
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