CATHOLICS DEFEND BARRIERS TO GAIN...

 "MONEY, THE ROOT OF ALL EVIL..." 

  The Church helps kings dominate merchants
and make revenues circulate

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  A queen with a halo distributes alms.

• Other ways in which it limits gain:

° Belief in Purgatory 
leads to financing masses for the dead
and leaving one's resources to the Church.

° Forbidding lending at interest 
reinforces royal economic control.

Bypassing the rule is possible but difficult. For major projects, one must turn to kings, as Columbus and Magellan turn to Spain's Ferdinand and Isabella. 
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• Building and decorating sanctuaries 

disperses huge sums: 

Take the superb 16th-century churches
of the trade-route junction of Troyes

Photos by Claude Abron

Contesting the Church 
means contesting deeply rooted barriers to gain.

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...Protestants shatter them