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Article: Promissory Notes on the Treasury of Merits: Indulgences in Late Medieval Europe
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- The Catholic Historical Review
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- January 1, 2008
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Promissory Notes on the Treasury of Merits: Indulgences in Late Medieval Europe. Edited by R. N. Swanson. [Brill's Companions to the Christian Tradition, Vol. 5.] (Leiden: Brill. 2006. Pp. xii, 360. $124.00; euro95,00.)
Since indulgences were arguably the keystone of later medieval religious practice and certainly at the heart of Luther's attack on the entire penitential and sacramental system, it is odd indeed that they have not elicited more systematic attention from scholars. The standard work, R. N. Swanson says, remains Nikolaus Paulus' three-volume Geschichte des Ablasses im Mittelalter, originally published in 1922-23 and reprinted in 2000, and recently supplemented in part by the ...