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Cover 1 Excommunication in Thirteenth-Century England: Communities, Politics, and Publicity 4 Copyright 5 Acknowledgements 6 Contents 8 Glossary of Automatic Excommunications referred to in the text 10 Introduction 12 Misuse, Overuse, Inefficacy? 16 The Significance of Excommunication 21 The Purpose of Excommunication 22 Ab Homine Sentences and Latae Sententiae 24 Layout of the Book 28 Quantitative Data 29 Numbers of Excommunicates 29 Who and for How Long? 33 Why? 34 PART I: INDIVIDUALS 38 1: The Spiritual Effects of Excommunication: Instilling Fear 40 Excommunication as Medicine and Legal Sanction 41 Excommunication in Miracle Tales 47 Anger and Legal Procedure 52 The Rite of Excommunication 56 Words of Excommunication 62 ‘Nisi’ Clauses 66 Conclusions 68 2: Belief, Fear, and Conscience 70 Dying Excommunicate 71 Unforced Absolution 79 Wariness of Excommunication 89 Divine Retribution 97 Living as an Excommunicate 101 Conclusions 109 PART II: COMMUNITIES 112 3: Exclusion from the Community of the Faithful 114 Exclusion and Contagion 115 Mitigations 118 Loss of Legal Rights 122 Exclusion from Church 125 Pretext for Mistreatment 126 Work 126 Provisions 129 Shunning and Insults 130 Imp

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