Research Catalog

Title

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

Publication

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2006.

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Details

Additional Authors

Swanson, R. N. (Robert Norman)

Description

xii, 360 p.; 25 cm.

Series Statement

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

Uniform Title

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

Subject

• Catholic Church > Europe > History
• To 1500
• Indulgences > History > To 1500

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

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 Deolžalová, Jan Hrdina, František Šmahel, and Zdeněk Uhlíř -- 6. "España es diferente"?: indulgences and the spiritual economy in late medieval Spain / John Edward -- 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 / Diane 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

ISBN

• 9004152873 (alk. paper)
• 9789004152878 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2006047591

OCLC

• 70167821
• SCSB-10982884

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library