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Excommunication for debt in late medieval France : the business of salvation / Tyler Lange.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lange, Tyler, 1981- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Catholic Church--France--History.
- Catholic Church.
- Excommunication (Canon law)--History.
- Excommunication (Canon law).
- Debtor and creditor--France--History.
- Debtor and creditor.
- Church and state--France--History.
- Church and state.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xvii, 303 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2016.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Late medieval church courts frequently excommunicated debtors at the request of their creditors. Tyler Lange analyzes over 11,000 excommunications between 1380 and 1530 in order to explore the forms, rhythms, and cultural significance of the practice. Three case studies demonstrate how excommunication for debt facilitated minor transactions in an age of scarce small-denomination coinage and how interest-free loans and sales credits could be viewed as encouraging the relations of charitable exchange that were supposed to exist between members of Christ's body. Lange also demonstrates how from 1500 or so believers gradually turned away from the practice and towards secular courts, at the same time as they retained the moralized, economically irrational conception of indebtedness we have yet to shake. The demand-driven rise and fall of excommunication for debt reveals how believers began to reshape the institutional Church well before Martin Luther posted his theses.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Introduction; 1. Church courts and credit; 2. The supply of ecclesiastical justice; 3. Case studies: demand for ecclesiastical justice; 4. A crisis of credit? The Reformation and the early modern world; Conclusion: from church to market; Bibliography; Index.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 08 Mar 2016).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-316-56435-5
- 1-108-81422-0
- 1-316-56639-0
- 1-316-56673-0
- 1-316-56707-9
- 1-316-56741-9
- 1-316-56877-6
- 1-316-53616-5
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