Promissory Notes on the Treasury of Merits: Indulgences in Late Medieval Europe
- Author / Editor
- Swanson, R. N., ed.
Promissory Notes on the Treasury of Merits: Indulgences in Late Medieval Europe
- Published
- Boston and Leiden: Brill, 2006.
- Physical Description
- xii, 360 pp.
- Series
- Brill's Companions to the Christian Tradition, no. 5.
- Description
- Twelve essays by various authors and an introduction by the editor. General commentary on the theology of indulgences and more focused studies of the history and literary depiction of indulgences in European nations/institutions in the late Middle Ages and early Reformation: Italy, Spain, Czech lands, the Low Countries, England, pilgrimage, and crusading. For an essay that pertains to Chaucer, see Alastair Minnis, "The Construction of Chaucer's Pardoner," pp. 169-95.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.