| Promissory Notes on the Treasury of Merits: Indulgences in Late Medieval Europe Contributor(s): Swanson, Robert (Editor) |
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ISBN: 9004152873 ISBN-13: 9789004152878 Publisher: Brill OUR PRICE: $152.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 2006 Annotation: Promissary Notes on the Treasury of Merits offers an important selection of work on a neglected topic of medieval European religious history. The contributions clearly demonstrate the vibrant, multi-faceted, and at times contested, role which indulgences played in many aspects of medieval catholic life. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Europe - Medieval - Religion | Christianity - History - Reference |
| Dewey: 265.66 |
| LCCN: 2006047591 |
| Series: Brill's Companions to the Christian Tradition |
| Physical Information: 1.13" H x 6.82" W x 9.68" (1.77 lbs) 360 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Medieval (500-1453) |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |