Spiritual Rationality

Papal Embargo as Cultural Practice

Bibliographic Data

ID19985018
AuthorsStefan Stantchev (0009-0005-2187-5396, corresponding author), Stefan K Stantchev
Year2014
Pages256
Publication date2014-07-17
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueSpiritual Rationality (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198704096.001.0001
OpenAlexW4250517954
Open LibraryOL27555266M
ISBN9780198704096
LanguageEN
Citations received9

This book offers a comprehensive study of embargo in a pre-modern period and a unique exploration into the domestic implications of a tool of foreign policy. At a time of an increasing papal role within Christian society, the church employed restrictions on trade with Muslims, pagans, ‘heretics,’ ‘schismatics,’ disobedient Catholic communities, and individual Jews in order to facilitate papally endorsed warfare against external enemies and to discipline internal foes. The various trade bans were originally promulgated as individual responses to specific circumstances. They all were shaped, however, by the premise that sin and the defense of the decorum of the faith and/or Christendom condone, even require, papal intervention into the lives of the laity and by the text-based approach of popes and canonists. Papal embargo, consequently, was not only the sum total of individual trade bans but also a legal and moral discourse that classified exchanges into legitimate and illegitimate ones, compelled merchants to distinguish clearly between themselves as Roman Christians and a multitude of others as non-Christians, and helped order symbolically both the relationships between the two groups and those between church and laity. Papal embargo’s chief relevance thus lay within Christian society itself, where it functioned as an intangible pastoral staff. While sixteenth-century developments undermined it as a policy tool and a moral discourse alike, papal embargo inscribed the notion of the immorality of trade with the enemy into European thought

Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Faith · Goodwill · Immorality · Intervention (counseling) · Morality · Order (exchange) · Political science · Premise · Rationality · Theology · Historical and Linguistic Studies · Law · Medieval History and Crusades · Philosophy · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity · Religious studies · Catholic church · Christianity and politics · Church history · Commerce · Embargo · History · Popes · Temporal power

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