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Handling Sin

Confession in the Middle Ages

  • Paperback
  • 236 pages
  • Publisher: York Medieval Press
  • 16.6 x 23.1 x 1.3 cm

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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. PETER BILLER is Professor of Medieval History at the University of York; A.J. MINNIS is Douglas Tracy Smith Professor of English, Yale University. Contributors: PETER BILLER, ROB MEENS, ALEXANDER MURRAY, JACQUELINE MURRAY, LESLEY SMITH, MICHAEL HAREN, JOHN BALDWIN
Handling Sin and Medieval Theology and the Natural Body
Medieval Theology and the Natural BodyHandling Sin

  • Title

    Handling Sin

  • Authors

    Alastair J. Minnis +1

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    York Medieval Press

  • Published

    October 2013

  • Weight

    376g

  • Page Count

    236

  • Dimensions

    16.6 x 23.1 x 1.3 cm

  • ISBN

    9781903153482

  • ISBN-10

    1903153484

  • Eden Code

    4077367

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