Financing Cathedral Building in the Middle Ages

The Generosity of the Faithful

Wim Vroom (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

736 Seiten

2010
Amsterdam University Press (Verlag)
978-90-8964-035-2 (ISBN)

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This first comprehensive overview of the process of commissioning and financing the construction of cathedrals in the Middle Ages reveals a financing system almost as monumental as the cathedrals themselves. Here we follow the historian on a fascinating examination of construction accounts and other sources – extant but never so minutely explored – bringing the bishop and the chapter to account, as it were.
The book is divided into two parts. The first gives a broad overview of the resources on which medieval commissioners could draw, including contributions from the bishop, chapter, sovereign, city and, above all, the faithful of the diocese in which the cathedral was erected. The second part is a case study of the financing of construction at Utrecht Cathedral, whose archives are among the best preserved in Europe, followed by a brief discussion of the financing of several other cathedral building projects throughout Europe and of the church of St Peter’s in Rome.

Wim Vroom is former director of the Department of Dutch History at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. He was also professor by special appointment of Dutch Cultural History at the University of Amsterdam.

Preface, Introduction, Part One the sources of income for cathedral building in the middle ages Chapter One Managing the cathedral church: the cathedral fabric Chapter Two Sources of income for the building works 1 Short-term diocesan collections 2 Long-term diocesan collections: the mendicatoria Part Two The Financing of Cathedral Building in the Middle Ages Chapter 3 The financing of the building works at Utrecht Cathedral: a case study 1 Contributions from the chapter 1525 2 Gifts and bequests 3 Devotional and indulgence monies offered in Utrecht Cathedral 4 Episcopal mendicatoria and synodal statutes 5 The reportationes sancti Martini 6 The quest monies 7 Income from property: rents and annuities 8 Financing transactions: the cathedral fabric as lender and borrower 9 The sale of building materials and church treasure Chapter 4. A survey of construction financing at several cathedrals, Notes, Appendices, Archives, Bibliography, Index of place-names, Illustration credits.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	6.8.2010
Übersetzer	Elizabeth Manton
Sprache	englisch
Maße	173 x 225 mm
Gewicht	1357 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
	Technik ► Architektur
ISBN-10	90-8964-035-5 / 9089640355
ISBN-13	978-90-8964-035-2 / 9789089640352
Zustand	Neuware