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Handling Sin: Confession in the Middle Ages

by Peter Biller
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9781903153482
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: York Medieval Press
  • Publisher Imprint: York Medieval Press
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  • Pages: 232
  • Original Price: GBP 19.99
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 336 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Europe / Medieval and Christianity / General

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.

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

Biller, Peter: - PETE BILLER is Professor Emeritus in the Department of History at the University of York.

Biller, Peter: - PETE BILLER is Professor Emeritus in the Department of History at the University of York.

Murray, Jacqueline: - JACQUELINE MURRAY is University Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Guelph.

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