The Idea of Usury: From Tribal Brotherhood to Universal Otherhood

344 Pages·1969·12.194 MB·English

by  Benjamin Nelson

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THE IDEA OF USURY

THE IDEA OF
USURY
From Tribal Brotherhood to
Universal Otherhood
Second Edition, Enlarged
BENJAMIN NELSON
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS
CHICAGO AND LONDON
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The original edition of this volume was published by Princeton University
Press as No. 3 in the “History of Ideas Series” under the editorial
sponsorship and direction of the Editorial Committee, The Journal of
the History of Ideas: John Herman Randall, Jr. (chairman), Gilbert
Chinard, Arthur O. Lovejoy, Marjorie H. Nicolson (ex-officio), Philip
P. Wiener, Paul 0. Kristeller, George Boas.
Standard Book Number: 226-57160-2 (clothbound) ;
226-57161-0 (paperback)
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 71-76205
The University of Chicago Press, Chicago 60637
The University of Chicago Press, Ltd., London w.c.i
© 1949, 1969 by Benjamin N. Nelson. All rights reserved
Originally published 1949. Second Edition, Enlarged, 1969
Printed in the United States of America
To My Parents, Brothers, and Friends
—And in Memory of
Max Weber and Sir Henry Maine