Peddlers of Paradise
This study investigates the activities of the Austin Friars in England in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries regarding the sale of expurgatory services. Through an analysis of their letters of confraternity and indulgences, this study argues that around the end of the fifteenth century, the...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2017
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Church history and religious culture
Year: 2017, Volume: 97, Issue: 1, Pages: 29-52 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
England
/ Augustiner
/ Indulgence
/ Sale
/ History 1400-1550
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| IxTheo Classification: | KAF Church history 1300-1500; late Middle Ages KAG Church history 1500-1648; Reformation; humanism; Renaissance KBF British Isles KCA Monasticism; religious orders NBE Anthropology |
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late-medieval history
early-modern history
monasticism
Austin Friars
indulgences
Robert Barnes
letters of confraternity
Scala Coeli indulgence
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| Summary: | This study investigates the activities of the Austin Friars in England in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries regarding the sale of expurgatory services. Through an analysis of their letters of confraternity and indulgences, this study argues that around the end of the fifteenth century, the Austin Friars experienced a change in attitude in the sale of their religious services. They exponentially increased their efforts in selling indulgences and letters of confraternity and in advertising their popular Scala Coeli services, an attitude that reached its zenith in 1516 when Pope Leo X licensed the Austin Friars to sell and promote a lucrative plenary indulgence. This change has significant consequences for considerations of the actions of English Augustinian reformers in the sixteenth century, primarily Robert Barnes, whose criticisms of clerical wealth are put into relief when examined within this monastic context. |
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| ISSN: | 1871-2428 |
| Contains: | In: Church history and religious culture
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/18712428-09701004 |