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The merchant in the confessional : trade and price in the pre-Reformation penitential handbooks / by Odd Langholm.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Langholm, Odd, 1928-
- Series:
- Studies in medieval and Reformation thought ; v. 93.
- Studies in medieval and Reformation thought, 0585-6914 ; v. 93
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Penitentials--History--To 1500.
- Penitentials.
- Business--Religious aspects--Christianity--History of doctrines--Middle Ages, 600-1500.
- Business.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (301 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2003.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- An exploration of the norms relating to trade and price expressed in handbooks designed for the education of confessors or as aids in the confessional. The author traces the development of such norms, and some 90 penitential handbooks are analyzed, with biographical sketches of the authors.
- Contents:
- Contents; Preface; Introduction; PART ONE TRANSALPINE AND IBERIAN AUTHORS; PART TWO ITALIAN AUTHORS; PART THREE DOCTRINAL AND HISTORICAL OVERVIEW; Bibliography; Index of Names
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-284) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-280-46712-6
- 9786610467129
- 1-4175-4548-8
- 90-474-0186-7
- OCLC:
- 191039331
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