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- Reading Abbey would have a large and impressive church and living quarters for dozens of monks who would worship there. The abbey transformed Reading forever, turning a small market town into an important religious centre known across Western Europe.
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Jan 1, 2003 · Medieval Western Europe may have been politically fragmented but it remained united in a shared religious faith. Catholic Europe proved resilient to attacks from new enemies in the years 800-1000 – the Vikings from the north, the Magyars from the east and the Muslims of North Africa from the south.
- Conceptual Framework
- A Changed Political Economy in Early Modern Germany
- Empirical Evidence on Resource Reallocation
- Implications For Social Science and Beyond
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This consequence is surprising. How did an intensely religious movement, preaching biblical revival, produce economic secularisation? And why did resources so disproportionately shift towards the control of secular rulers? To help us understand how the introduction of religious competition during the Reformation could transform Europe’s political e...
Rich historical evidence confirms that secular territorial lords bargained with Protestant religious elites over the allocation of monastic resources. While Protestant theologians initially attempted to reserve these resources for religious and social purposes, the price of political legitimacy fell, and secular territorial lords were able to strik...
The massive shift in political power and resources after 1517 should have had broader consequences for the allocation of resources across the economy: 1. We expect a reduction in labour demand in the religious sector of the economy, and increased demand in the secular sector – particularly from enriched secular lords. 2. Forward-looking students wo...
Our findings shed new light on some of the most important debates in the social sciences. We provide evidence that the Reformation indeed marked a decisive economic break from the past, playing a causal role in the transformation of Europe’s economy. While this may appear supportive of the ‘Weber Hypothesis’, we provide a mechanism for long-run eff...
Becker, S O and L Woessmann (2009), “Was Weber Wrong? A Human Capital Theory of Protestant Economic History,” Quarterly Journal of Economics124(2): 531–596. Cantoni, D (2015), “The Economic Effects of the Protestant Reformation: Testing the Weber Hypothesis in the German Lands,” Journal of the European Economic Association13(4): 561–598. Cantoni, D...
Nov 28, 2022 · How did Reading become a 'Silicon city'? In 1945, Reading stood on the brink of the digital age. From the 1950s, new jobs in manufacturing, public transport, construction, retail, and the newly-founded NHS attracted young workers especially from Ireland, India, Pakistan, and the Caribbean. The new generation settled and started families, making ...
In recounting the history of Christianity in western Europe and the British Isles from the time of the apostle Paul to the present, this article is designed to account for the identification of Christianity with Europe and to describe its later significance.
This articles focusses on the branch of the Christian church in western Europe, the Catholic Church (today’s Roman Catholic Church). The other major branch of the church of medieval Europe, the Orthodox Church, will be covered elsewhere.
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The Latin Church. After the fall of the western Roman empire, it was the Church that united Western Europe and provided a sense of European identity. That religious tradition would persist and spread, ultimately extinguishing the so-called “pagan” religions, despite the political fragmentation left in the wake of the fall of Rome.
