| Handling Sin: Confession in the Middle Ages Contributor(s): Biller, Peter (Editor), Alastair J. Minnis, Alastair J. (Editor), Murray, Alexander (Contribution by) |
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ISBN: 0952973413 ISBN-13: 9780952973416 Publisher: York Medieval Press OUR PRICE: $109.25 Product Type: Hardcover Published: October 1998 Annotation: 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.PETER BILLER is Senior Lecturer in Medieval History at the University of Yor; A.J. MINNIS is Professor of Medieval Literature at the University of York.Contributors: PETER BILLER, ROB MEENS, ALEXANDER MURRAY, JACQUELINE MURRAY, LESLEY SMITH, MICHAEL HAREN, JOHN BALDWIN |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Christianity - History - History | Europe - Medieval - Religion | Christianity - General |
| Dewey: 265.609 |
| LCCN: 98017971 |
| Series: York Studies in Medieval Theology |
| Physical Information: 0.56" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.11 lbs) 230 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Medieval (500-1453) - Religious Orientation - Christian |