Promissory Notes on the Treasury of Merits

Robert Swanson is Professor of Medieval History at the University of Birmingham, UK. He has published extensively on medieval ecclesiastical and religious history, including Church and Society in Late Medieval England, and Religion and Devotion in Europe, c.1215-c.1515 (Cambridge, 1995).

Anyone interested in the history of the catholic Church in medieval England and Europe.

“this collection offers an excellent broad introduction to the complexities of indulgence theory and practice in medieval Europe and lays the groundwork for further detailed explorations”. Jennifer L. Welsh in H-German, H-Net Reviews. April, 2009. URL: http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=24015

Preface
List of Contributors
1. Introduction
2. The Medieval Theology of Indulgences, Robert W. Shaffern
3. Confraternities and Indulgences in Italy in the Later Middle Ages, Giovanna Casagrande
4. Indulgences in the Low Countries, c. 1300–c. 1520, Charles M. A. Caspers
5. The Reception and Criticism of Indulgences in the Late Medieval Czech Lands, Eva Doležalová, Jan Hrdina, Frantisek Smahel, and Zdenek Uhlír
6. “España es diferente”? Indulgences and the Spiritual Economy in Late Medieval Spain, John Edwards
7. The Construction of Chaucer’s Pardoner, Alastair Minnis
8. Dangerous Fictions: Indulgences in the Thought of Wyclif and his Followers, Anne Hudson
9. Praying for Pardon: Devotional Indulgences in Late Medieval England, Robert N. Swanson
10. Pardons and Pilgrims, Diana Webb
11. Indulgences for Crusading, 1417–1517, Norman Housley
12: The Indulgence as a Media Event: Developments in Communication through Broadsides in the Fifteenth Century, Falk Eisermann
13: Luther’s Ninety-five Theses and the Contemporary Criticism of Indulgences, David Bagchi
Appendix
Index