From Moneylending to Hell - Episode 1 of The Medieval Grad Podcast (Patreon)
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2021-06-20 19:34:47
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2022-12
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Moneylending was serious business in the Middle Ages. You could be risking your very soul!
Lucie Laumonier talks with Sama Mammadova, a PhD candidate at Harvard University, who studies the history of usury and moneylending in fourteenth and fifteenth-century Italy. How did moneylenders reconcile their business with the fear of sin?