Indulgences and saintly devotionalisms in the middle ages

From: The Catholic Historical Review | Date: October 1, 1998| Author: | Copyright information

ROBERT W. SHAFFERN*

Indulgences, which were (and still are) remissions of temporal penalty for sin granted by the episcopal authority of the Catholic Church, have long been associated with mechanicalism, decadence, and formalism in later medieval Christianity.1 This association originated in the medieval period itself and was, of course, inherited by the Protestant Reformation. Critics such as Jean Gerson (c. 1420) lamented the numbers of indulgences and sizes of the remissions being granted by Christendom's prelates as an attack on true penitence and contrition.2

John Wycliffe (c. 1380) ...

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