Handling Sin: Confession in the Middle Ages - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0952973413 ISBN 13 : 9780952973416

Editeur : York Medieval Press, 1998

Synopsis

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

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

PETE BILLER is Professor Emeritus in the Department of History at the University of York.

JACQUELINE MURRAY is University Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Guelph.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: York Medieval Press
• Date d'édition: 1998
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0952973413
• ISBN 13: 9780952973416
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 230
• Éditeur: Biller Professor Peter, Minnis Professor Alastair J
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