Later Monastic Economies
Constance A. H. Berman
This chapter examines the resources used by communities of monks and nuns in medieval West to support their lives prayer, contemplation charity years between 1100 1400 ce. In an earlier Jean-Pierre Devroey laid out fundamentals Carolingian monastic economies drawing on rules, customaries, treatises, as well capitularies polyptychs; much this organization remained later Middle Ages. both eras few were entirely self-sufficient; most had recourse markets. The evidence for differs from that Byzantine realm there is little available hagiography touches economic matters. There were, however, a number Western acquisition patterns, purchase exchange gifts, similar those described Kaplan Mount Athos.
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