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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Sacred trust : the medieval church as an economic firm / Robert B.
Ekelund, Jr. . . . [et al.].

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 0-19-510337-8

1. Economics--Religious aspects--Catholic Church. 2. Church
history--Middle Ages, 600-1500. 3. Catholic Church--Europe--
History. 4. Europe--Church history--600-1500. I. Ekelund, Robert
B. (Robert Burton), 1940-

BX1795.E27S33 1996

330.94′01--dc20 96-20830

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