Monastic economy across time
Subtitle: wealth management, patterns, and trends
By: {Authors: Roumen Avramov ... [and sixteen others] ; Edited by: Roumen Avramov, Aleksandar Fotić, Elias Kolovos, Phokion P. Kotzageorgis
Contributors: Kotzageōrgēs, Phōkiōn, editor, contributor
Publisher: Centre for Advanced Study Sofia
Published: 2021
Place of publication: [Sofii︠a︡]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 315
ISBN-13: 9786199184103
Subjects: Economics; Orthodox Eastern Church; Wealth; Orthodox Eastern monasteries; Economic aspects; Monks; Economic conditions; Doctrines; Doctrinal Theology
Description: The book aims at a readership of both economists and historians. Beyond the well-known Weberian thesis concerning the role of Protestantism in the development of capitalism, monastic economies are studied to assess their impact on the religious patterns of economic behavior. Those issues are discussed in the frame of key economic concepts such as rationality, state intervention, networking, agency, and governance. The book includes essays concerning Byzantine, Ottoman and modern South-Eastern Europe, and early modern Western Europe. Survival and continuity of the monastic wealth is considered as an example of successful handling of real estate transactions, flows of funds, and contacts with financial institutions. Moreover, the book focuses on the economic impact of the privileged relations of monasticism with the secular powers. Finally, the question is raised how the monastic economy (still) matters in the contemporary world.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Does Monastic Economy Matter?  -- Roiimen Avramov, Aleksandar Fotic, Elias Kolovos, Phokion P. Kotzageorgis; title: SECTION I WEALTH MANAGEMENT REAL ESTATE.; title: Beyond the Borders: the Vital Space of Byzantine Athos A GEOGRAPHICAL OVERVIEW OF THE ATHONITE ESTATES UP TO THE OTTOMAN CONQUEST  -- Dimitrios Kalpakis; title: Transactional Activity of Kykkos Monastery (Cyprus) in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries REAL ESTATE CONTRACTS  -- Styliani N. Lepida; title: Urban Catholic Monasteries and Urban Growth in Eighteenth-Century European Cities  -- Preston Perluss; title: SECTION II FLOW OF FUNDS AND GOVERNANCE.; title: How to Run a Big Monastic Ciftlik: the Case of Hilandar's Bulgar Metochion in Karviya (Kalamaria), Sixteenth-Seventeenth Centuries  -- Aleksandar Fotic; title: Crisis and Survival of the Athonite Monasteries during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries PRELIMINARY FINDINGS AND THOUGHTS  -- Phokion P. Kotzageorgis; title: Between Piety and Economics NUCET MONASTERY (WALLACHIA) AND ITS REGISTER OF REVENUE AND EXPENSES (1731-1739)  -- Gheorghe Lazar; title: Monastic Financial Management in the Provinces of the Patriarchate of Constantinople (1867-1873) THE CASE OF THE METROPOLIS OF DRYINOUPOLIS AND GJIROKASTRA  -- Konstantinos Giakoumis.; title: SECTION III DEALING WITH FINANCE.; title: Orthodox Monasteries as Banks A COMPARISON WITH CATHOLIC MOUNTS OF PIETY  -- Lidia Cotovanu; title: Assets, Interest and National Preferences THE ATHONITE MONASTERIES AND THE GREEK BANKS IN THE EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY  -- Andreas Bouroutis; title: Nuns' Funds The 1874 and 1925 ACCOUNTS 0F THE CARMEL OF 'S-HERTOGENBOSCH  -- Brian Heffernan.; title: SECTION IV VIS-A-VIS THE SECULAR POWER.; title: Monasteries, Economy, and Politics in the Orthodox World from Medieval to Modern Times  -- Elias Kolovos; title: The Economics of Patronage in Western Catholic Nunneries (Sixteenth-Eighteenth Century)  -- Antoine Roullet; title: The Church of Cyprus and the Transition from Ottoman Rule to British Modernity CHURCH PROPERTY IN ITS POLITICAL CONTEXT  -- Michalis N. Michael; title: The Monastic Economy of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church Between the Two World Wars  -- Daniela Kalkandjieva.; title: SECTION V CONTEMPORARY MONASTICISM.; title: Female Orthodox Monasticism, Ecology, and Productivist Capitalism THE CASES OF THE MONASTERIES OF ORMYLIA (GREECE) AND SOLAN (FRANCE), LATE TWENTIENTH - EARLY TWENTY FIRST CENTURY  -- Isabelle Depret; title: Does Monastic Economy Still Matter? THE ECONOMY OF CATHOLIC MONASTERIES AND THE EXPECTATIONS OF SOCIETY -- Isabelle Jonveaux