1. Die protestantische Ethik und der Geist des Kapitalismus, in Johannes Winckelmann, ed., Max Weber. Die protestantische Ethik I. Eine Aufsatzsammlung, 3rd ed., Hamburg, 1973, pp. 134–35.
2. See in particular Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft. Grundriss der verstehenden Soziologie, 5th ed., ed. Johannes Winckelmann, Tübingen, 1972, pp. 695–97 (=Economy and Society. An Outline of Interpretive Sociology, ed. Guenther Roth and Claus Wittich, New York, 1968, vol. 3, pp. 1168–70). Weber’s other statements on monasticism are conveniently listed in the index to the English translation.
3. S. N. Eisenstadt, ed., The Protestant Ethic and Modernization. A Comparative View, New York, 1968, p. 3.
4. But see Lynn White, Jr., ‘What Accelerated Technological Progress in the Western Middle Ages?’ in A. C. Crombie, ed., Scientific Change... Symposium on the History of Science, University of Oxford
9–15 July 1961, London, 1963, pp. 286–90, and ‘Cultural Climates and Technological Advance in the Middle Ages’, Viator 2 (1971). 186–93.
5. In addition to the volume by Eisenstadt, historical material relating to Weber’s thesis will be found in the bibliography of Benjamin Nelson, The Idea of Usury. From Tribal Brotherhood to Universal Otherhood, 2nd ed., Chicago, 1969, pp. 167–277, and in David Little, Religion, Order, and Law. A Study in Pre-Revolutionary England, New York, 1969, pp. 226–37.