Promissory notes on the treasury of merits : indulgences in late medieval Europe / edited by R.N. Swanson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Swanson, R. N. (Robert Norman)

Series:

Brill's companions to the Christian tradition ; v. 5.

Brill's companions to the Christian tradition, 1871-6377 ; v. 5

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indulgences--History--To 1500.

Indulgences.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (373 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Preliminary Material / R.N. Swanson

Introduction / R.N. Swanson

The Medieval Theology of Indulgences / Robert W. Shaffern

Confraternities and Indulgences in Italy in the Later Middle Ages / Giovanna Casagrande

Indulgences in the Low Countries, C. 1300–C. 1520 / Charles M. A. Caspers

The Reception and Criticism of Indulgences in the Late Medieval Czech Lands / Eva Doležalová , Jan Hrdina , František Šmahel and Zdeněk Uhlíř

“España es Diferente”? Indulgences and the Spiritual Economy in Late Medieval Spain / John Edwards

The Construction of Chaucer’s Pardoner / Alastair Minnis

Dangerous Fictions: Indulgences in the Thought of Wyclif and his Followers / Anne Hudson

Praying for Pardon: Devotional Indulgences in Late Medieval England / Robert N. Swanson

Pardons and Pilgrims / Diana Webb

Indulgences for Crusading, 1417–1517 / Norman Housley

The Indulgence as a Media Event: Developments in Communication through Broadsides in the Fifteenth Century / Falk Eisermann

Luther’s Ninety-Five Theses and the Contemporary Criticism of Indulgences / David Bagchi

Index / R.N. Swanson

Brill’s Companions to the Christian Tradition / R.N. Swanson.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-281-40011-4

9786611400118

90-474-1052-1

OCLC:

923612626

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789047410522 DOI