The Church and a Revaluation of Work in the Ninth Century?
Janet L. Nelson
My title poses what may seem an unpromising question. Even to consider the possibility of such fundamental change in ecclesiastical perceptions very midst Dark Ages anachronistic. After all, were not Christian attitudes work already well and truly fixed? There is, for instance, story Adam Eve from Genesis 3.16-19, as displayed words pictures mid-ninth-century Moutier-Grandval Bible: Unto woman [the Lord] said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow conception; thou shalt bring forth children…. And he Because hast hearkened unto voice wife …. cursed is ground sake; eat it all days life In sweat face bread, till return ground; out wast taken.
Studies in Church History