Financing Cathedral Building in the Middle Ages
The Generosity of the Faithful
Distributed for Amsterdam University Press
This volume is the first complete overview of the process of commissioning and financing the construction of cathedrals during the Middle Ages. The first part of the book outlines the sources of wealth from which the commissioners of these projects could draw, including contributions from the bishop, the chapter, the city, and above all those parishioners for whom the structure was to be erected. The second part is a case study of the financing of Utrecht’s cathedral, for which the archives are among the best-preserved in Europe. Vroom concludes with an analysis of the financing for other notable cathedrals, including St. Peter’s in Rome.
Introduction
Part One: The Sources of Income for Cathedral-Building in the Middle Ages
Chapter 1: Managing the cathedral church: the cathedral fabric
Chapter 2: Sources of income for the building works
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
Chapter 4: A survey of construction financing at several cathedrals
Graphs
Money and Coins
Notes
Appendices
Appendix 1: Medieval cathedral fabric accounts
Appendix 2: Annates
Appendix 3: List of mendicatoria
Appendix 4: Mendicatorium of Bishop-elect John of Nassau (1267–1290) for the construction
of Utrecht Cathedral, 8 September 1288
Appendix 5: Church inventory items funded by the fabric of Utrecht Cathedral, 1400–1576
Appendix 6: Church inventory funded by the fabric of the Buurkerk, 1420–1566
Archives
Bibliography
Index of place-names
Illustration credits
Architecture: European Architecture
Economics and Business: Economics--History
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