Sin and Society in Fourteenth-Century England

Name: Sin and Society in Fourteenth-Century England
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By Michael Haren

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Penetrating behind the seal of medieval confession is among the most formidable historiographical challenges. One route is through confessors' manuals. This is the first full-scale scholarly study of a fourteenth-century confessor's English example. It contributes significantly to the European-wide research on pre-Reformation confessional practice and clerical training. On another level, the Memoriale Presbiterorum's peculiarly intense concern with social morality affords pungent commentary on contemporary English society.

Michael Haren analyses a remarkable treatise both as a vehicle of social doctrine and as a mirror of the milieu to which it is directed. While presenting it against its general intellectual background, continental and English, he also argues for its setting within a vigorous and largely neglected episcopal regime, that of Bishop Grandisson of Exeter. His wide-ranging exposition will interest students of moralizing literature - including Chaucer and Piers Plowman - as well as historians.

Product details

Edition:

1

Number of Pages:

276

Release Date:

2000-07-13

Publication Date:

2000-05-11

Publisher:

OUP Oxford

Languages:

Original: English

ISBN10:

0198208510

ISBN13:

9780198208518

GPSR Manufacturer Reference:

[email protected]

Weight:

524 g

Height:

145 cm

Width:

222 cm

Thickness:

20 cm

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