Rubrics, images and indulgences in late medieval netherlandish manuscripts.

What role did images play in the mania for indulgences during the decades prior to the Protestant Reformation? Rubrics, Images and Indulgences in Late Medieval Netherlandish Manuscripts considers how indulgences (the remission of time in Purgatory) were used to market certain images. Conversely, ima...

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Place / Publishing House:[S.l.] : : BRILL,, 2016.
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:Library of the Written Word 55.
Physical Description:1 online resource (338 pages) :; illustrations (some color), photographs.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Rubrics and the Performance of Prayer
  • Indulgences
  • Arma Christi
  • The Body of Christ
  • The Mass of St Gregory, the Man of Sorrows, and Prayers for the Arma Christi
  • Prayers and Miracles before the Virgin’s Image
  • Marian Indulgences
  • Images That Thematize Indulgences
  • Epilogue
  • Appendix
  • Bibliography
  • Index.