@article{93297,
      recid = {93297},
      author = {Lange, Tyler,},
      title = {Excommunication for debt in late medieval France : the  business of salvation /},
      note = {Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 08  Mar 2016).},
      abstract = {Late medieval church courts frequently excommunicated  debtors at the request of their creditors. Tyler Lange  analyzes over 11,000 excommunications between 1380 and 1530  in order to explore the forms, rhythms, and cultural  significance of the practice. Three case studies  demonstrate how excommunication for debt facilitated minor  transactions in an age of scarce small-denomination coinage  and how interest-free loans and sales credits could be  viewed as encouraging the relations of charitable exchange  that were supposed to exist between members of Christ's  body. Lange also demonstrates how from 1500 or so believers  gradually turned away from the practice and towards secular  courts, at the same time as they retained the moralized,  economically irrational conception of indebtedness we have  yet to shake. The demand-driven rise and fall of  excommunication for debt reveals how believers began to  reshape the institutional Church well before Martin Luther  posted his theses.},
      url = {http://lawcat.berkeley.edu/record/93297},
      isbn = {9781316536162},
}