The penitents' treasury indulgences in Latin Christendom ; 1175 - 1375 - Shaffern, Robert W. 1963- (Univ. of Scranton Press, 2007)
Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-231) and index
Indulgences and the persistent historiography of confessional polemics -- A powerful historiographical construct -- Indulgences in the historiography of the sixteenth century -- Indulgences in the historiography of the nineteenth century -- Old roads but new directions -- Confessional paradigms and Vatican II -- Beyond the historiography of confessional polemic -- The emergence and variety of indulgences -- The tradition of the penitential regime -- The first indulgences -- Indulgences and pious building -- Indulgences, devotionalism, and catechesis -- The treasury of merit -- Sources of the image -- Further refinements -- Indulgences and contritionism -- The authority of the church -- The mid-thirteenth-century systematization -- Indulgences, the saints, and devotionalism at the end of the high Middle Ages -- The cancellation of "purgatories" -- The piety of the saints and indulgences -- Saintly visions and indulgences -- Controversy and indulgences prior to the great western schism I -- A pena et a culpa? -- Indulgences for the dead -- Controversy and indulgences prior to the great western schism II -- The jurisdiction of bishops -- The magnitude of indulgences -- Overlapping jurisdictions? -- The efficacy of indulgences and arithmetic piety -- Conclusion: Unde indulgentiae?