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100 1  Lange, Tyler,|d1981-|eauthor 
245 10 Excommunication for debt in late medieval France :|bthe 
       business of salvation /|cTyler Lange, University of 
       California, Berkeley 
264  1 Cambridge, United Kingdom :|bCambridge University Press,
       |c2016 
300    xvii, 303 pages :|billustrations ;|c24 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-299) and 
       index 
505 0  1. Church courts and credit -- 2. The supply of 
       ecclesiastical justice -- 3. Case studies: demand for 
       ecclesiastical justice -- 4. A crisis of credit? The 
       Reformation and the early modern world -- Conclusion: from
       church to market 
520    "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"--|cProvided by publisher 
610 20 Catholic Church|zFrance|xHistory 
650  0 Excommunication (Canon law)|xHistory 
650  0 Debtor and creditor|zFrance|xHistory 
650  0 Church and state|zFrance|xHistory