Crusade and reform in Latin Christendom : the Paris masters against heresy and corruption, c.1179-c.1254 / Jessalyn Lea Bird.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bird, Jessalynn L., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Paris (France)--Church history--12th century.

Paris (France).

Paris (France)--Church history--13th century.

France--Church history--987-1515.

France.

Church history--Middle Ages, 600-1500.

Church history.

Church renewal--History--To 1500.

Church renewal.

Crusades.

Church renewal--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : color illustrations

illustration

polychrome

Other Title:

Paris masters against heresy and corruption, c.1179-c.1254

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2026]

Summary:

Convinced that crusade expeditions were failing 'because of our sins', Paris-trained reformers targeted 'corrupt' clergy and 'loose women' (meretrices) in campaigns against prostitution, clerical marriage and concubinage, and lay fornication. Moral theologians tied new forms of participation in crusading to existing and novel forms of lay devotion and promoted crusaders as a new form of ideal penitent to emulate. Rather than cynically employing indulgences to convert devotion into cash for the crusade, many reformers insisted on allowing anyone who wished to 'take the cross', and that the effectiveness of any indulgence granted rested on the contrition and true confession of the recipient. However, reformers became involved in collecting crusade taxes and donations, which potentially damaged their reputations. Reformers also urged secular and religious rulers to clamp down on excessive interest-taking by moneylenders.

Contents:

Shifting historical paradigms: Paris masters, reform, and crusade

Reforming networks: Paris masters and their collaborators

From Venus’ daughter to the Virgin Mary’s son: Crusading and the reform of clergy and women

Complications, compromise, and criticism: The dialogic refashioning of clerical reform and crusade

Framing crusading devotion

Fishers in a sea of sinners: Preaching crusading as reform

Individualizing and crowdsourcing salvation: Indulgences and martyrdom

Crowdfunding crusading: Alms, taxes, and vow redemptions

Base profit or profiting souls? Usury (interest-taking) and crusading

A hundredfold return: Crusading and the rehabilitation of usurers

Legacies of the Paris masters: Reformers and the mendicant orders.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (Oxford Academic, viewed on August 21, 2026).

Other Format:

Print version : Bird, Jessalynn Lea. Crusade and reform in Latin Christendom.

ISBN:

9780191836190

0191836192

9780192513700

0192513702

OCLC:

1587118862

Publisher Number:

CIPO000381329

CIPO000381358

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license