Documents on the papal plenary indulgences, 1300-1517 : : preached in the Regnum Teutonicum / / edited by Stuart Jenks.

• Superior document: Later Medieval Europe ; v. 16
• TeilnehmendeR: Jenks, Stuart.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2018.
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English; German; Latin
• Series: Later Medieval Europe 16.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (831 pages).

Catholics and Protestants have disputed the validity and legitimacy of papal plenary indulgences for 500 years without a unitary corpus of the relevant texts documenting the indulgence campaigns which so exercised Luther and his contemporaries. This volume prints for the first time in a modern edition the full text of all available papal bulls and brevia between 1300 and 1517 which granted plenary indulgences (i.e. those which cancelled all previously accrued temporal punishment due to sin), the instructions to the commissioners on how to preach (and defend) the indulgences and conduct the campaigns, and finally the extensions of indulgence campaigns. The Regnum Teutonicum provides the geographical framework, since it includes all the areas where the Reformation initially broke out.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- A Brief Guide for the Uninitiated -- Jubilee Indulgence 1300 -- Jubilee Indulgence 1350 -- Jubilee Indulgence 1389 -- Crusade Indulgence against the Hussites 1420 -- Plenary Indulgence of the Council of Basel for Financing the Negotiations with the Greeks on the Union of Both Churches 1436/38 -- Jubilee Indulgence 1450 -- Crusade against the Turks 1455 -- Crusade against the Turks 1463 -- Crusade Indulgence against King George Podiebrad of Bohemia 1465/71 -- Jubilee Indulgence 1475 -- Indulgence for the Church of Saintes 1476/88 -- Plenary Indulgence for the Order of St Mary Magdalene in Strasbourg 1479 -- Indulgence for the Order of St John of Jerusalem in Defense of Rhodes 1479/82 -- Indulgence in Aid of the War against the Turks 1489 -- Jubilee Indulgence 1500 -- Indulgence in Aid of the War against the Turks 1501/03 -- Indulgence in Aid of the War against the Russians and Tartars in Livonia 1503/06 -- St Peter Indulgence 1506 -- Indulgence in Aid of the War against the Russians and Tartars in Livonia 1507/10 -- Indulgence in Aid of the Reconstruction of the Towers of the Constance Minster 1513/14 -- Indulgence for the Hospital of the Holy Spirit in Rome 1514/18 -- Indulgence in Aid of the Dominicans of Augsburg 1514/17 -- Indulgence for the Cathedral of Trier 1515/16 -- Indulgence for the Repair of the Dikes in the Burgundian Netherlands 1515/18 -- Indulgence in Aid of the Reconstruction of the Parish Church of Brüx/Most 1516/18 -- St Peter Indulgence 1514/18 -- St Peter Indulgence 1516/18 -- Conclusion -- Chronological List of Documents -- Back Matter -- References.