Excommunication for Debt in Late Medieval France
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Late medieval church courts frequently excommunicated debtors at the request of their creditors. Tyler Lange analyzes over 11000 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.
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