Rubrics, Images and Indulgences in Late Medieval Netherlandish Manuscripts

by Kathryn Rudy and M. Kathryn Rudy

What role did images play in the mania for indulgences during the decades prior to the Protestant Reformation? Rubrics, Images and Indulgences in Late Medieval Netherlandish Manuscripts considers how indulgences (the remission of time in Purgatory) were used to market certain images. Conversely, images helped to spread indulgences, such as those attached to the Virgin in sole and the Mass of St Gregory. Images also began depicting the effects...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004326952
• ISBN13: 9789004326958
• Release Date: December 2016
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 340 Pages
• Weight: 3.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 8.7" x 11.6"