Join Roisin Cossar in conversation with Jason Aaron Brown about his book, St Antoninus of Florence on Trade, Merchants, and Workers.
Copies of St Antoninus of Florence on Trade, Merchants, and Workers will be available for sale.
About the Author
Jason Aaron Brown (Ph.D., University of Toronto) is a medievalist specializing in the study of medieval pastoral and legal literature. He has taught history, Latin, and manuscript studies at the University of Manitoba, University of Winnipeg, and Durham University. St Antoninus of Florence on Trade, Merchants, and Workers is his first book, published by the University of Toronto Press in 2024.
About the Event Host
Roisin Cossar (Ph.D., University of Toronto) is a historian of late medieval Italy whose research focuses on the social history of laypeople and clerics in the Christian church. Her 2017 monograph Clerical Households in Late Medieval Italy (Harvard) explored the worlds of clerics and their families through analysis of notarial records. Cossar was a research fellow (2011/12) at the Villa I Tatti, the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, and is a past winner of the University of Manitoba’s highest award for teaching excellence.
About the Book
Saint Antoninus of Florence was a Dominican friar and archbishop of Florence from 1446 to 1459. He composed one of the most comprehensive manuals of moral theology, the Summa, which has long been counted among the more copious, influential, and rewarding medieval sources.
St Antoninus of Florence on Trade, Merchants, and Workers gives an orientation to the life and teaching of Saint Antoninus, focusing on his writings on economic ethics. This book interprets the life and teachings of Saint Antoninus, an important Catholic saint and fifteenth-century writer, and offers a critical edition of his major work on moral theology.
