Third Lateran Council excommunicates usurers

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• The Ascent of Money whole source · open book

  For Christians, lending money at interest was a sin. Usurers, people who lent money at interest, had been excommunicated by the Third Lateran Council in 1179.

  chapter: 1: Dreams of Avarice

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