Handling Sin : Confession in the Middle Ages
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Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
York Studies in Medieval Theology
ISBN-10
1903153484
ISBN-13
9781903153482
Publisher
York Medieval Press
Imprint
York Medieval Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Oct 17th, 2013
Print length
232 Pages
Weight
368 grams
Dimensions
23.50 x 16.40 x 1.30 cms
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Penance and confession were an integral part of medieval religious life; essays explore literary evidence.
Penance, confession and their texts (penitential and confessors'' manuals) are important topics for an understanding of the middle ages, in relation to a wide range of issues, from medieval social thought to Chaucer''s background. These essays treat a variety of different aspects of the topic: subjects include the frequency and character of early medieval penance; the summae and manuals for confessors, and the ways in which these texts (written by males for males) constructed women as sexual in nature; William of Auvergne''s remarkable writing on penance; and the relevance of confessors'' manuals for demographic history. John Baldwin''s major study "From the Ordeal to Confession", delivered as a Quodlibet lecture, traces the appearance in French romances of the themes of a penitent''s contrition, the priest''s job in listening, and the application of the spiritual conseil and penitence.
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