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

• Superior document: Brill's companions to the Christian tradition, v. 5
• TeilnehmendeR: Swanson, R. N.
• Year of Publication: 2006
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's companions to the Christian tradition ; v. 5.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (373 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

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.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / R.N. Swanson -- Introduction / R.N. Swanson -- The Medieval Theology of Indulgences / Robert W. Shaffern -- Confraternities and Indulgences in Italy in the Later Middle Ages / Giovanna Casagrande -- Indulgences in the Low Countries, C. 1300–C. 1520 / Charles M. A. Caspers -- The Reception and Criticism of Indulgences in the Late Medieval Czech Lands / Eva Doležalová , Jan Hrdina , František Šmahel and Zdeněk Uhlíř -- “España es Diferente”? Indulgences and the Spiritual Economy in Late Medieval Spain / John Edwards -- The Construction of Chaucer’s Pardoner / Alastair Minnis -- Dangerous Fictions: Indulgences in the Thought of Wyclif and his Followers / Anne Hudson -- Praying for Pardon: Devotional Indulgences in Late Medieval England / Robert N. Swanson -- Pardons and Pilgrims / Diana Webb -- Indulgences for Crusading, 1417–1517 / Norman Housley -- The Indulgence as a Media Event: Developments in Communication through Broadsides in the Fifteenth Century / Falk Eisermann -- Luther’s Ninety-Five Theses and the Contemporary Criticism of Indulgences / David Bagchi -- Index / R.N. Swanson -- Brill’s Companions to the Christian Tradition / R.N. Swanson.