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Crusading as Penitential Pilgrimage: The Theology of Indulgences Reconsidered: A Scholarly View
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Series: The Potent of the Crusades
General World HistoryHistoriographyIsrael & Palestine History
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ISBN13: 9798292590071
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 15 2025
Pages: 238
Weight: 0.71
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 15 2025
Pages: 238
Weight: 0.71
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A Note to Readers
This book is the culmination of a journey through dusty manuscripts, arcane glosses, papal decrees, and sermons that once echoed from cathedral pulpits to rural shrines. It is written with the conviction that theology, history, and devotion are not separate spheres but interwoven textures of the medieval Christian imagination.
This book is the culmination of a journey through dusty manuscripts, arcane glosses, papal decrees, and sermons that once echoed from cathedral pulpits to rural shrines. It is written with the conviction that theology, history, and devotion are not separate spheres but interwoven textures of the medieval Christian imagination.
Readers will encounter here a synthesis that is both critical and devotional, both structural and narrative. I have aimed to walk the thin line between theological exegesis and historiographical reconstruction-between what indulgences were believed to be, and what they actually became in the social and spiritual economies of crusading Europe.
Some sections of this book are technical, delving into juridical codices or scholastic distinctions between culpa and poena. Others lean into the pastoral and popular, examining what a peasant, monk, or knight may have believed when they fastened a cross to their cloak. I invite readers from all backgrounds-whether scholars of canon law or curious seekers of spiritual history-to traverse these pages not only as students of crusading but as witnesses to the fervent hopes and fraught realities of redemption.
This is not a polemic, nor an apologia. Rather, it is a meditation on how a theological idea-that sins could be absolved by action-moved men to war, women to prayer, and popes to bind heaven's keys to earthly vows.
Some sections of this book are technical, delving into juridical codices or scholastic distinctions between culpa and poena. Others lean into the pastoral and popular, examining what a peasant, monk, or knight may have believed when they fastened a cross to their cloak. I invite readers from all backgrounds-whether scholars of canon law or curious seekers of spiritual history-to traverse these pages not only as students of crusading but as witnesses to the fervent hopes and fraught realities of redemption.
This is not a polemic, nor an apologia. Rather, it is a meditation on how a theological idea-that sins could be absolved by action-moved men to war, women to prayer, and popes to bind heaven's keys to earthly vows.
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