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Handling Sin

By Peter Biller

Handling Sin

By Peter Biller

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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.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
236
Release Date:
2013-10-17
Publication Date:
2013-09-19
Publisher:
York Medieval Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1903153484
ISBN13:
9781903153482
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
365 g
Height:
156 cm
Width:
234 cm
Thickness:
13 cm
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