Promissory Notes on the Treasury of Merits: Indulgences in Late Medieval Europe

Erscheinungsjahr 2006
ISBN: 978-90-04-15287-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 5, 364 Seiten, Format (B × H): 173 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 803 g

Reihe: Brill's Companions to the Christian Tradition

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Swanson, Robert

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Systematische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christliche Kirchen, Konfessionen, Denominationen Katholizismus, Römisch-Katholische Kirche

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
List of Contributors
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 Doležalová, Jan Hrdina, Frantisek Smahel, and Zdenek Uhlír
6. “España es diferente”? Indulgences and the Spiritual Economy in Late Medieval Spain, John Edwards
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, Diana 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
Appendix
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Robert Swanson is Professor of Medieval History at the University of Birmingham, UK. He has published extensively on medieval ecclesiastical and religious history, including Church and Society in Late Medieval England, and Religion and Devotion in Europe, c.1215-c.1515 (Cambridge, 1995).