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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 Drawing on numerous unpublished sources, Kathryn M. Rudy demonstrates how rubrics modified behaviour and expectations around image-centred devotion.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.
Price: $216.00
Pages: 318
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Library of the Written Word
Publication Date:
01 January 2017
ISBN: 9789004326958
Format: Other
“A really beautiful, insightful and original book. Any Reformation historian who wants to understand the importance of indulgences will want to read it.”
Andrew Pettegree, University of St Andrews
“300 pages of original scholarly research that reshapes disciplinary boundaries in the field.”
Elizabeth Savage, London. In: The Library, Vol. 19, No. 2 (June 2018), pp. 231–232.
“a truly outstanding study.”
Mark Trowbridge, Marymount University. In: HNA Reviews, October 2019.
“a product of enormous effort and remarkable expertise […]. It would be remiss to snub the aesthetic appeal of this volume: rubrics are laid out in red text to reflect the manuscripts they reference, and Rudy’s discussion is beautifully illustrated with 152 impressive, often large format, predominantly full-colour images, which in the modern sense make this book quite an indulgent read.”
Jenneka P. C. Janzen, Leiden University. In: Quaerendo, Vol. 48, No. 1 (2018), pp. 88–91.
Andrew Pettegree, University of St Andrews
“300 pages of original scholarly research that reshapes disciplinary boundaries in the field.”
Elizabeth Savage, London. In: The Library, Vol. 19, No. 2 (June 2018), pp. 231–232.
“a truly outstanding study.”
Mark Trowbridge, Marymount University. In: HNA Reviews, October 2019.
“a product of enormous effort and remarkable expertise […]. It would be remiss to snub the aesthetic appeal of this volume: rubrics are laid out in red text to reflect the manuscripts they reference, and Rudy’s discussion is beautifully illustrated with 152 impressive, often large format, predominantly full-colour images, which in the modern sense make this book quite an indulgent read.”
Jenneka P. C. Janzen, Leiden University. In: Quaerendo, Vol. 48, No. 1 (2018), pp. 88–91.
Kathryn M. Rudy, Ph.D. (Columbia), is Professor of Art History at the University of St Andrews. She has also published Piety in Pieces: How medieval readers customized their manuscripts (Open Book Publishers, 2016) and Postcards on Parchment: The Social Lives of Medieval Books (Yale University Press, 2015).