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The Humiliation of Sinners - Public Penance in Thirteenth-Century France (Paperback, New edition)
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The Humiliation of Sinners - Public Penance in Thirteenth-Century France (Paperback, New edition)
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"The Humiliation of Sinners is the work of a formidable scholar
whose intensive research . . . produced a bold reinterpretation of
the history of medieval penance." Catholic Historical
Review"Mansfield's book challenges long-held assumptions about the
disappearance of public penance after the Fourth Lateran Council in
1215. . . . The Humiliation of Sinners shows that Mansfield was a
young woman of extraordinary promise in the field of medieval
studies." Choice"Mansfield argues that public penance continued to
flourish throughout the thirteenth century. . . . She examines a
rich variety of sources drawn primarily from northern France. The
surviving narratives report a surprising number of cases of public
penance involving notorious figures." Law and History Review"This
book is a major achievement. Its masterly synthesis is extensively
documented, based on very close reading of a wide range of
manuscript and printed material. Coherent in itself, it contains
much of value beyond its own immediate concerns." French
HistoryThis compelling book, first published in 1995, changed
historians' understanding of the history of public penance, a topic
crucial to debates about the complex evolution of individualism in
the West. Mary C. Mansfield demonstrates that various forms of
public humiliation, imposed on nobles and peasants alike for
shocking crimes as well as for minor brawls, survived into the
thirteenth century and beyond."
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