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Excommunication for Debt in Late Medieval France - The Business of Salvation (Hardcover)
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Excommunication for Debt in Late Medieval France - The Business of Salvation (Hardcover)
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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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