Catholics and Protestants have disputed the validity and legitimacy of papal plenary indulgences for 500 years without a unitary corpus of the relevant texts documenting the indulgence campaigns which so exercised Luther and his contemporaries. This volume prints for the first time in a modern edition the full text of all available papal bulls and brevia between 1300 and 1517 which granted plenary indulgences (i.e. those which cancelled all previously accrued temporal punishment due to sin), the instructions to the commissioners on how to preach (and defend) the indulgences and conduct the campaigns, and finally the extensions of indulgence campaigns. The 'Regnum Teutonicum' provides the geographical framework, since it includes all the areas where the Reformation initially broke out.
Author(s): Stuart Jenks (ed.)
Series: Later Medieval Europe, 16
Publisher: Brill
Year: 2018
Language: English, Latin
Pages: 832
City: Leiden
Acknowledgements
List of Tables, Maps, Graphs and Illustrations
Tables
Maps
Graphs
Illustrations
Introduction
Notes on the Diplomatic Form of the Edition
A Brief Guide for the Uninitiated
The Basics
Peraudi, Summaria declaratio
Jubilee Indulgences
Crusading Indulgences
Penitentiary
Development to 1517
Chapter 1. Jubilee Indulgence 1300
Chapter 2. Jubilee Indulgence 1350
Chapter 3. Jubilee Indulgence 1389
Chapter 4. Crusade Indulgence against the Hussites 1420
Chapter 5. Plenary Indulgence of the Council of Basel for Financing the Negotiations with the Greeks on the Union of Both Churches 1436/38
Chapter 6. Jubilee Indulgence 1450
Chapter 7. Crusade against the Turks 1455
Chapter 8. Crusade against the Turks 1463
Chapter 9. Crusade Indulgence against King George Podiebrad of Bohemia 1465/71
Chapter 10. Jubilee Indulgence 1475
Chapter 11. Indulgence for the Church of Saintes 1476/88
Chapter 12. Plenary Indulgence for the Order of St. Mary Magdalene in Strasbourg 1479
Chapter 13. Indulgence for the Order of St John of Jerusalem in Defense of Rhodes 1479/82
Chapter 14. Indulgence in Aid of the War against the Turks 1489
Chapter 15. Jubilee Indulgence 1500
Chapter 16. Indulgence in Aid of the War against the Turks 1501/03
Chapter 17. Indulgence in Aid of the War against the Russians and Tartars in Livonia 1503/06
Chapter 18. St. Peter Indulgence 1506
Chapter 19. Indulgence in Aid of the War against the Russians and Tartars in Livonia 1507/10
Chapter 20. Indulgence in Aid of the Reconstruction of the Towers of the Constance Minster 1513/14
Chapter 21. Indulgence for the Hospital of the Holy Spirit in Rome 1514/18
Chapter 22. Indulgence in Aid of the Dominicans of Augsburg 1514/17
Chapter 23. Indulgence for the Cathedral of Trier 1515/16
Chapter 24. Indulgence for the Repair of the Dikes in the Burgundian Netherlands 1515/18
Chapter 25. Indulgence in Aid of the Reconstruction of the Parish Church of Brüx/Most 1516/18
Chapter 26. St Peter Indulgence 1514/18
Chapter 27. St Peter Indulgence 1516/18
Conclusion
The Cost of the Spiritual Benefits of Plenary Indulgences
How Burdensome were the Fees?
Was the Church a Rent-Seeking Monopolist?
Some Final Thoughts
Appendix: Third-Order Price Discrimination
Chronological List of Documents
References
Index of People and Places
Index of Subjects
