Robert W Shaffern
Biographic Data
| ID | 5018828 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert W Shaffern |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert W |
| FAMILY NAME | Shaffern |
| SIGNATURE | SHAFFERN R W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Scranton |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Indulgences in Late Medieval England
The Pardoner's Promises
(2006). The Pardoner's Promises: Preachingand Policing Indulgences in the Fourteenth‐Century English Church. The Historian: Vol. 68, No. 1, pp. 49-65
Images, jurisdiction, and the treasury of merit
Indulgences, which were remissions of temporal penalty for sin, were one of the most popular religious practices of the later Middle Ages. Famous as the occasion for the Protestant Reformation, the abuses connected with the popularity of indulgences are well-documented, but to focus on abuse, as so many histories have done, is to miss the insight into the religious culture that the study of indulgences affords. The proliferation of indulgences ca…
Learned Discussions of Indulgences for the Dead in the Middle Ages
By the thirteenth century, Latin Christians had been dispensing and collecting indulgences for two centuries. Though indulgentia was a relatively late term, and first the favorite of thirteenth-century Dominican theologians, remissions of temporal penalty for sin had been granted since the eleventh century, whether they were known as remissiones or relaxationes , the two most popular terms of eleventh- and twelfth-century ecclesiastics. Bishops g…
Learned Discussions of Indulgences for the Dead in the Middle Ages
By the thirteenth century, Latin Christians had been dispensing and collecting indulgences for two centuries. Though indulgentia was a relatively late term, and first the favorite of thirteenth-century Dominican theologians, remissions of temporal penalty for sin had been granted since the eleventh century, whether they were known as remissiones or relaxationes , the two most popular terms of eleventh- and twelfth-century ecclesiastics. Bishops g…
Images, jurisdiction, and the treasury of merit
Indulgences, which were remissions of temporal penalty for sin, were one of the most popular religious practices of the later Middle Ages. Famous as the occasion for the Protestant Reformation, the abuses connected with the popularity of indulgences are well-documented, but to focus on abuse, as so many histories have done, is to miss the insight into the religious culture that the study of indulgences affords. The proliferation of indulgences ca…
Learned Discussions of Indulgences for the Dead in the Middle Ages
By the thirteenth century, Latin Christians had been dispensing and collecting indulgences for two centuries. Though indulgentia was a relatively late term, and first the favorite of thirteenth-century Dominican theologians, remissions of temporal penalty for sin had been granted since the eleventh century, whether they were known as remissiones or relaxationes , the two most popular terms of eleventh- and twelfth-century ecclesiastics. Bishops g…
Images, jurisdiction, and the treasury of merit
Indulgences, which were remissions of temporal penalty for sin, were one of the most popular religious practices of the later Middle Ages. Famous as the occasion for the Protestant Reformation, the abuses connected with the popularity of indulgences are well-documented, but to focus on abuse, as so many histories have done, is to miss the insight into the religious culture that the study of indulgences affords. The proliferation of indulgences ca…
The Pardoner's Promises
(2006). The Pardoner's Promises: Preachingand Policing Indulgences in the Fourteenth‐Century English Church. The Historian: Vol. 68, No. 1, pp. 49-65
Indulgences in Late Medieval England
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