Promissory Notes on the Treasury of Merits
Indulgences in Late Medieval Europe
Published on 12. September 2006
Book
Hardback
364 pages
978-90-04-15287-8 (ISBN)
Description
Promissory Notes on the Treasury of Merits is a volume of 12 essays by a distinguished team of international scholars dealing with the place of indulgences in the religious life of Europe between roughly 1250 and the outbreak of the Reformation. Some of the articles offer regional analyses, stretching from Spain to the Netherlands, from England to Bohemia and Italy. Others deal with the theology and theological and practical controversies provoked by indulgences, or with thematic issues like the place of indulgences in fifteenth-century crusades, in pilgrimage, and the early exploitation of print in their distribution. The complementary nature of the articles builds into a fuller picture of the central, but hitherto neglected, role which indulgences had in late medieval European religious life.
Reviews / Votes
"this collection offers an excellent broad introduction to the complexities of indulgence theory and practice in medieval Europe and lays the groundwork for further detailed explorations". Jennifer L. Welsh in H-German, H-Net Reviews. April, 2009. URL: http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=24015More details
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Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 246 mm
Width: 173 mm
Thickness: 29 mm
Weight
803 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-15287-8 (9789004152878)
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Person
Robert Swanson is Professor of Medieval History at the University of Birmingham, UK. He has published extensively on medieval ecclesiastical and religious history, including Church and Society in Late Medieval England, and Religion and Devotion in Europe, c.1215-c.1515 (Cambridge, 1995).
Content
Preface
List of Contributors
1. Introduction
2. The Medieval Theology of Indulgences, Robert W. Shaffern
3. Confraternities and Indulgences in Italy in the Later Middle Ages, Giovanna Casagrande
4. Indulgences in the Low Countries, c. 1300-c. 1520, Charles M. A. Caspers
5. The Reception and Criticism of Indulgences in the Late Medieval Czech Lands, Eva Dolezalova, Jan Hrdina, Frantisek Smahel, and Zdenek Uhlir
6. "Espana es diferente"? Indulgences and the Spiritual Economy in Late Medieval Spain, John Edwards
7. The Construction of Chaucer's Pardoner, Alastair Minnis
8. Dangerous Fictions: Indulgences in the Thought of Wyclif and his Followers, Anne Hudson
9. Praying for Pardon: Devotional Indulgences in Late Medieval England, Robert N. Swanson
10. Pardons and Pilgrims, Diana Webb
11. Indulgences for Crusading, 1417-1517, Norman Housley
12: The Indulgence as a Media Event: Developments in Communication through Broadsides in the Fifteenth Century, Falk Eisermann
13: Luther's Ninety-five Theses and the Contemporary Criticism of Indulgences, David Bagchi
Appendix
Index
List of Contributors
1. Introduction
2. The Medieval Theology of Indulgences, Robert W. Shaffern
3. Confraternities and Indulgences in Italy in the Later Middle Ages, Giovanna Casagrande
4. Indulgences in the Low Countries, c. 1300-c. 1520, Charles M. A. Caspers
5. The Reception and Criticism of Indulgences in the Late Medieval Czech Lands, Eva Dolezalova, Jan Hrdina, Frantisek Smahel, and Zdenek Uhlir
6. "Espana es diferente"? Indulgences and the Spiritual Economy in Late Medieval Spain, John Edwards
7. The Construction of Chaucer's Pardoner, Alastair Minnis
8. Dangerous Fictions: Indulgences in the Thought of Wyclif and his Followers, Anne Hudson
9. Praying for Pardon: Devotional Indulgences in Late Medieval England, Robert N. Swanson
10. Pardons and Pilgrims, Diana Webb
11. Indulgences for Crusading, 1417-1517, Norman Housley
12: The Indulgence as a Media Event: Developments in Communication through Broadsides in the Fifteenth Century, Falk Eisermann
13: Luther's Ninety-five Theses and the Contemporary Criticism of Indulgences, David Bagchi
Appendix
Index