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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      05 March 2016
      24 March 2016
      ISBN:
      9781316536162
      9781107145795
      9781108814225
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316536162
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.61kg, 303 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.5kg, 322 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Area Studies, European History 1000-1450, History, Religion, European Studies, Church History
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    Area Studies, European History 1000-1450, History, Religion, European Studies, Church History
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    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.

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    'Thanks to an impressive data base derived from sampling three church courts (Chartres, Paris and Montvilliers) including more than 11,000 sentences, Tyler Lange provides us with a useful empirical presentation of the issue, depicting the rise and the fall of excommunication for debt from 1300 to 1600.'

    Jerome Loiseau Source: European History Quarterly

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