Excommunication for Debt in Late Medieval France: The Business of Salvation
- Cambridge University Press 2016.
- 1 online resource
Includes bibliographies and index.
Cover; Half-title; Title page; Copyright information; Table of contents; List of figures; List of tables; List of map; Prefatory note; Acknowledgments; Note on names, dates, and currency; List of abbreviations; Introduction; The history of credit; Legal history, social history, and canon law; 1 Church courts and credit; Ecclesiastical jurisdiction; Contracts; Canonical procedure; The meaning of excommunication for debt; 2 The supply of ecclesiastical justice; Late medieval landed incomes; Prelates' incomes: reform and revenue; The archbishopric of Rouen The supply of ecclesiastical justice withersAppendix: income from the Register of Excommunicates in the Archdiocese of Rouen by week...; 3 Case studies: demand for ecclesiastical justice; The sub-decanal officiality of Chartres, 1380-1436; The archidiaconal officiality of Paris, 1426-1439; The abbatial officiality of Montivilliers, 1433-1463 and 1499-1530; Excommunications at Montivilliers, 1433-1463; Excommunications at Montivilliers, 1499-1530; Elsewhere; 4 A crisis of credit? The Reformation and the early modern world; The sixteenth-century growth of litigiousness Law and the Reformation: territory, property, contractCommercium and mercatio/Commerce and marchandise; Conclusion: from Church to market; Select bibliography; I. Archival sources; II. Printed sources; III. Selected historical literature; Index
A re-evaluation of late medieval church courts' role in the enforcement of minor credit through the widespread, frequent excommunication of debtors.
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Catholic Church--History.--France
Excommunication (Canon law)--History. Debtor and creditor--History.--France Church and state--History.--France