In this light, the series recognises the importance of multi-disciplinary perspectives, as well as single-disciplinary perspectives, on the issues and questions connected to religion and money. All disciplinary perspectives are welcome, particularly from archaeology, history (social, ecclesiastical, intellectual and economic), theology, anthropology and numismatics.
Of especial interest are studies that explore issues on the theory and practice of money within religious contexts. Examples might include attitudes towards money expressed in intellectual systems and by individual religious thinkers, how religious institutions organized their economies, and attitudes towards money in daily life and at a practical level, from larger communities, to individuals. Studies of the interconnections and contrasts, overlaps and distinctions, between these attitudes and practices are encouraged. How differences between theory and practice emerge, how they are reconciled, or how they remain unresolved, are questions the series is keen to explore. The range of source material available, and the centrality of both subjects to medieval life, culture, belief and activity, allow for breadth and depth of investigation and insight into the medieval past at its most intimate and in its largest institutions and social structures.
Series editor: Svein H. Gullbekk, Museum of Cultural History, University of Oslo, Norway and Giles E. M. Gasper, Department of History, Durham University, United Kingdom.
For more information on how to submit a book proposal – monographs and edited collections – to the series, please contact Tom Gray, at tgray@ashgatepublishing.com.
The first volume to be published: G.E.M. Gasper and S.H. Gullbekk (eds.), Money and the Church in Medieval Europe, 1000-1200: Practice, Morality and Thought (May, 2015).