Excommunication for debt in late medieval France: the business of salvation
"Late medieval church courts frequently excommunicated debtors at the request of their creditors. Tyler Lange analyzes over 11,000 excommunications between 1380 and 1530 in order to explore the forms, rhythms, and cultural significance of the practice. Three case studies demonstrate how excommu...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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Cambridge
Cambridge University Press
2016
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| In: | Year: 2016 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
France
/ Church criminal law
/ Interest prohibition
/ Excommunication
/ History 1380-1530
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| Further subjects: | B
Excommunication (Canon law)
History
B Church and state (France) History B Debtor and creditor (France) History B Catholic Church (France) History |
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| Summary: | "Late medieval church courts frequently excommunicated debtors at the request of their creditors. Tyler Lange analyzes over 11,000 excommunications between 1380 and 1530 in order to explore the forms, rhythms, and cultural significance of the practice. Three case studies demonstrate how excommunication for debt facilitated minor transactions in an age of scarce small-denomination coinage and how interest-free loans and sales credits could be viewed as encouraging the relations of charitable exchange that were supposed to exist between members of Christ's body. Lange also demonstrates how from 1500 or so believers gradually turned away from the practice and towards secular courts, at the same time as they retained the moralized, economically irrational conception of indebtedness we have yet to shake. The demand-driven rise and fall of excommunication for debt reveals how believers began to reshape the institutional Church well before Martin Luther posted his theses"-- Machine generated contents note: Introduction; 1. Church courts and credit; 2. The supply of ecclesiastical justice; 3. Case studies: demand for ecclesiastical justice; 4. A crisis of credit? The Reformation and the early modern world; Conclusion: from church to market; Bibliography; Index |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-299) and index |
| Physical Description: | xvii, 303 Seiten, graphische Darstellungen, 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 978-1-107-14579-5 |
