Promissory notes on the treasury of merits
Subtitle: indulgences in late medieval Europe
By: edited by R.N. Swanson.
Contributors: Swanson, R. N.
Series: Brill's companions to the Christian tradition -- v. 5
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9789004152878
Subjects: Indulgences -- History -- To 1500.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. Introduction; title: 2. The medieval theology of indulgences / Robert W. Shaffern; title: 3. Confraternities and indulgences in Italy in the later Middle Ages / Giovanna Casagrande; title: 4. Indulgences in the Low Countries, c. 1300-c. 1520 / Charles M. A. Caspers; title: 5. The reception and criticism of indulgences in the late medieval Czech lands / Eva Deolžalová, Jan Hrdina, František Šmahel, and Zdeněk Uhlíř; title: 6. "España es diferente"?: indulgences and the spiritual economy in late medieval Spain / John Edwards; title: 7. The construction of Chaucer's pardoner / Alastair Minnis; title: 8. Dangerous fictions: indulgences in the thought of Wyclif and his followers / Anne Hudson; title: 9. Praying for pardon: devotional indulgences in late medieval England / Robert N. Swanson; title: 10. Pardons and pilgrims / Diane Webb; title: 11. Indulgences for crusading, 1417-1517 / Norman Housley; title: 12. The indulgence as a media event: developments in communication through broadsides in the fifteenth century / Falk Eisermann; title: 13. Luther's Ninety-five Theses and the contemporary criticism of indulgences / David Bagchi