Got into a debate with a friend about this; specifically that Catholicism/Christianity and the Abrahamic faiths were morally opposed to charging any type of interest in the 1100s. It was considered a moral sin to use money as an instrument for making money by itself, without adding any real work of value.
It was a counter by him using the Parable of the Talents:
https://bible.oremus.org/?passage=Matthew%2025:14%E2%80%9330&version=nrsv
The master at the end, tells the man who saved his money that he should have at least invested it in a bank. But even here, the other two servants used their money to trade real goods and return on actual value.
It also goes to show what the canonized bible, and what Christians have believed, has differed wildly in each century. The Christianity of 1100 or 1300 or 1400 would be unrecognizable to the evangelicals and reformed protestants of today.
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