Religion and the Medieval and Early Modern Global Marketplace

Explores the importance of religious beliefs, objects, and practices to the development and evolution of markets and marketplaces in material, geographic, and ideological terms providing students and scholars with an accessible introduction to the latest research in the field to inform their studies. Truly global, the chapters cover Europe, South Asia, South America, Africa and the Middle East allowing students to compare the role religion played in the development of the marketplace in the pre-modern world. This is an interdisciplinary volume, bringing together scholars of literature, history, archaeology, and sociology to investigate religion and the marketplace providing students with a fuller picture of the field.