(print) xix, 266 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

List of Abbreviations vii -- Acknowledgments ix -- Introduction xi -- I Monastic Economic Problems and the Reception of New Members 3 -- II Lay Needs and Entry into Religious Life 25 -- III Gifts from Entrants: The Beginnings of Criticism 61 -- IV Entry Payments as Simony 83 -- V The Canonists and Simoniacal Reception 107 -- VI Measures against Simoniacal Entry, 1163-1198 147 -- VII Innocent III and Simoniacal Entry 179 -- VIII The Aftermath of the Fourth Lateran Council 203 -- Bibliography 231 -- Index 261