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Indulgences in Late Medieval England: Passports to Paradise?
Indulgences in Late Medieval England Passports to Paradise
Author: R. N. Swanson
Indulgences played a major role in medieval 'strategies for eternity', easing the journey through Purgatory to Heaven after death. However, theological attacks during the Reformation and the subsequent Protestant rejection of indulgences have given them a poor reputation, compounding the effect of the fourteenth-century satires by Chaucer and La...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780521881203
ISBN-10: 052188120X
Publication Date: 1/14/2008
Pages: 594
Edition: 1
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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