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Record Nr.

UNINA9910826887403321

Autore

Langholm Odd <1928->

Titolo

The merchant in the confessional : trade and price in the pre-Reformation penitential handbooks / / by Odd Langholm

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2003

ISBN

1-280-46712-6

9786610467129

1-4175-4548-8

90-474-0186-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (301 p.)

Collana

Studies in medieval and Reformation thought, , 0585-6914 ; ; v. 93

Disciplina

264/.020862

Soggetti

Penitentials - History - To 1500

Business - Religious aspects - Christianity - History of doctrines - Middle Ages, 600-1500

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-284) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; Introduction; PART ONE TRANSALPINE AND IBERIAN AUTHORS; PART TWO ITALIAN AUTHORS; PART THREE DOCTRINAL AND HISTORICAL OVERVIEW; Bibliography; Index of Names

Sommario/riassunto

An exploration of the norms relating to trade and price expressed in handbooks designed for the education of confessors or as aids in the confessional. The author traces the development of such norms, and some 90 penitential handbooks are analyzed, with biographical sketches of the authors.