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Handling Sin - Confession in the Middle Ages (Hardcover) Loot Price: R2,180
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Handling Sin - Confession in the Middle Ages (Hardcover): Peter Biller, Alastair J. Alastair J. Minnis

Handling Sin - Confession in the Middle Ages (Hardcover)

Peter Biller, Alastair J. Alastair J. Minnis; Contributions by Alexander Murray, Jacqueline Murray, John Baldwin, Lesley Smith, Michael Haren, Peter Biller, Rob Meens

Series: York Studies in Medieval Theology

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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

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Imprint: York Medieval Press
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: York Studies in Medieval Theology
Release date: October 1998
First published: 1998
Editors: Peter Biller • Alastair J. Alastair J. Minnis (Customer)
Contributors: Alexander Murray • Jacqueline Murray (Customer) • John Baldwin (Contributor) • Lesley Smith • Michael Haren • Peter Biller • Rob Meens
Dimensions: 234 x 156 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages: 230
ISBN-13: 978-0-9529734-1-6
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > Classical, early & medieval
Books > Humanities > History > World history > 500 to 1500
Books > Humanities > History > European history > General
Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Christianity > Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholic Church > General
Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Christianity > Christian theology > General
Books > History > European history > General
Books > History > World history > 500 to 1500
Books > Religion & Spirituality > Christianity > Christian theology > General
Books > Religion & Spirituality > Christianity > Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholic Church > General
Books > Christianity > Christian theology
Books > Christianity > Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholic Church
LSN: 0-9529734-1-3
Barcode: 9780952973416

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