{"product_id":"excommunication-for-debt-in-late-medieval-france-9781107145795","title":"Excommunication for Debt in Late Medieval France","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUsing quantitative and qualitative methods to re-evaluate the role of late medieval church courts, Tyler Lange examines the relatively common occurrence of excommunicated debtors. This reveals how day-to-day credit functioned in the late Middle Ages, what debt meant to contemporaries, and how believers understood the Church.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Thanks to an impressive data base derived from sampling three church courts (Chartres, Paris and Montvilliers) including more than 11,000 sentences, Tyler Lange provides us with a useful empirical presentation of the issue, depicting the rise and the fall of excommunication for debt from 1300 to 1600.' Jerome Loiseau, European History Quarterly\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction; 1. Church courts and credit; 2. The supply of ecclesiastical justice; 3. Case studies: demand for ecclesiastical justice; 4. A crisis of credit? The Reformation and the early modern world; Conclusion: from church to market; Bibliography; Index.","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53186715582807,"sku":"9781107145795","price":81.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/excommunication-for-debt-in-late-medieval-france-9781107145795","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}