1st Edition

Financing Cathedral Building in the Middle Ages The Generosity of the Faithful

By Wim Vroom Copyright 2010
734 Pages
by Routledge

734 Pages
by Routledge

734 Pages
by Routledge

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,... Read more

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.

Biography

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.