Is this discussion to be directed toward remissions of sin or of penance?
This is a big part of the topic "indulgences," but the medieval western
church knew other indulgences, and the earliest ones produced in large
numbers by the papal chancery were different: exceptions to interdict,
private altars, free selection of a confessor in articulo mortis, singing
Mass before dawn, favors like that.
Daniel Williman
Binghamton University
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