TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rudy, Kathryn M.
PY  - 2017
DA  - 2017//
TI  - Rubrics, images and indulgences in late Medieval Netherlandish manuscripts
T3  - Library of the written word / The manuscript world volume 8
PB  - Brill
CY  - Leiden
KW  - Manuscripts, Medieval
KW  - Netherlands
KW  - Prayer books
KW  - Christian art and symbolism
AB  - 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 of indulgences: souls escaping Purgatory. Drawing on numerous unpublished sources, Kathryn M. Rudy demonstrates how rubrics modified behaviour and expectations around image-centred devotion. Her work is the first to analyse systematically the way that indulgences and images interacted - indeed, shaped each other - prior to the Reformation--
SN  - 9789004326958
LA  - English
N1  - by Kathryn M. Rudy
ID  - 162387811X
ER  -