“By power of its title alone, Mediaeval Socialism is a book certain to provoke. Regardless of how one defines the term “socialism,” as Bede Jarrett, O.P., notes, it “is a modern thing, and dependent almost wholly on modern conditions.” The question is well-worth asking, then: “How is it possible to find any real correspondence between theories of old time and those which have grown out of present-day conditions of life?” In this brief yet highly informative volume, Jarrett gives a fascinating sketch of mediaeval social conditions; an exposition of mediaeval communist theories and examples of their implementation; a detailed consideration of the Thomistic and Scholastic conclusions on the social question; and a challenging, hortatory closing chapter on almsgiving.” From the press: https://clunymedia.com/products/mediaeval-socialism
Deacon Chris May (currently teaching a class on Ivan Illich for the Maurin Academy) is reading this book about Medieval Socialism. For more information about Deacon Chris’s class on the ideas of the American thinker Ivan Illich, see: https://pmaurin.org/coming-deacon-chris-may-on-ivan-illich/
Interesting!