The penitents' treasury
Subtitle: indulgences in Latin Christendom, 1175-1375
By: by Robert W. Shaffern.
Publisher: University of Scranton Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Scranton
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9781589661394; 9781589661363
Subjects: Indulgences; Penance; Church history -- Middle Ages, 600-1500; Confession -- Catholic Church -- History; Absolution -- Catholic Church
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Indulgences and the persistent; title: Historiography of confessional polemics; title: A powerful historiographical construct; title: Indulgences in the historiography of the sixteenth century; title: Indulgences in the historiography of the nineteenth century; title: Old roads but new directions; title: Confessional paradigms and Vatican II; title: Beyond the historiography of confessional polemic; title: The emergence and variety of indulgences; title: The tradition of the penitential regime; title: The first indulgences; title: Indulgences and pious building; title: Indulgences, devotionalism, and catechesis; title: The treasury of merit; title: Sources of the image; title: Further refinements; title: Indulgences and contritionism; title: The authority of the church; title: The mid-thirteenth-century systematization; title: Indulgences, the saints, and devotionalism at the end of the high Middle Ages; title: The cancellation of "purgatories"; title: The piety of the saints and indulgences; title: Saintly visions and indulgences; title: Controversy and indulgences prior to the great western schism I; title: A pena et a culpa?; title: Indulgences for the dead; title: Controversial indulgences prior to the great western schism II; title: The jurisdiction of bishops; title: The magnitude of indulgences; title: The efficacy of indulgences and arithmetic piety; title: Conclusion: Unde indulgentiae?