Images, jurisdiction, and the treasury of merit
Robert W. Shaffern
Indulgences, which were remissions of temporal penalty for sin, one the most popular religious practices later Middle Ages. Famous as occasion Protestant Reformation, abuses connected with popularity indulgences are well-documented, but to focus on abuse, so many histories have done, is miss insight into culture that study affords. The proliferation can instead be attributed imagery and sensibilities in medieval Catholicism, pastoral methods mendicant friars systematised, popularised, employed serve ecclesiology papal monarchy.
Journal of Medieval History