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From: Jessalynn Bird <[log in to unmask]>
> Dear Cecilia,
> Sorry for the delayed reply. What period was the vow redemption from? (This
makes a big difference both in theory and in practice--as far as both can be
surmised).
which is all that kept me from offering a definitive answer to the original
querry --all those late, Copy-Cat guys are of no interest to us Genuine Second
Crusade People.
> By the way, I just read your book on Louis IX with much interest. It is
absolutely magnificent!
Gaposchkin, M. Cecilia.
The making of Saint Louis: kingship, sanctity, and crusade in the later Middle
Ages.
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2008.
331 p. : ill., maps
yes, doesn't look too bad.
one of those Fly-by-Night U.P.s, of course.
c
>On Behalf Of Cecilia Gaposchkin
> I have just been reading about the redemption of crusading vows. One well
> documented case involving a nobleman's redemption involved his payment of a
> sum of money great enough to fund one miles for one year to go to the holy
> land. For this, the nobleman received his plenary indulgence.
>
> Can someone tell me about the said "miles" who would go in the nobleman's
> stead. Would he received the spiritual benefits of crusading? Would he get
a
> plenary indulgence? Is this a kind of "two for one" deal? Or would the sum
> for the redemption, so calculated, be actually sent to the curial war
chest,
> rather than actually fund a replacement crusader.
>
> Thoughts and knowledge will be appreciated.
>
> thanks
> cecilia
>
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