The green ages: medieval innovations in sustainability

Machine generated contents note: Introduction

1. Was Everyone Poor Before We Invented Capitalism?

1.1. The History of Progress: Modern Grand Narratives and their Pitfalls

1.2. Did Our Forebears Toil from Dawn till Dusk?

1.3. Europe in the Highto Late Middle Ages: Some Dates and Figures

2. Sharing

2.1. Sharing Brings Riches: Convent Economy

2.2. Commons, and the Art of Internalising the External

2.3. Beguinages: Female Communities and Urban Gardening

3. Recycling

3.1. Maintenance Jobs and Second-Hand Markets

3.2. Paper: A Recycled Product Writes World History

3.3. Bricolage and Assemblage: Antiquity Repurposed for the Middle Ages

4. Microfinance

4.1. Microfinance Institutions in Italian Cities: The Monti di Pietà

4.2. Peer-to-Peer Lending in Medieval Towns

4.3. Agriculture on the Edge of Town: Medieval Rent-a-Cows

5. Philanthropy

5.1. Funding for Community Projects: Pont Saint-Bénézet in Avignon

5.2. Cultural and Social Sustainability: No Indulgences, No Michelangelo

5.3. Social Housing in Augsburg: The Fuggerei

6. Minimalism

6.1. Wealth is the Vomit of Fortune: Diogenes of Sinope

6.2. Money is Dung: St Francis of Assisi

6.3. Minimalism and Economic Theory: Pierre de Jean Olivi

7. What the Past Can Teach Us About the Future

7.1. What Would Our Ancestors Advise?

7.2. How to Escape the Prison of Inevitability

7.3. History: A Cure for Chronophobia.