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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
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
This volume in honour of Mayke De Jong offers twenty-five essays
focused upon the importance of religion to Frankish politics, a
discourse to which De Jong herself has contributed greatly in her
academic career. The prominent and internationally renowned
contributors offer fresh perspectives on various themes such as the
nature of royal authority, the definition of polity, unity and
dissent, ideas of correction and discipline, the power of rhetoric
and the rhetoric of power, and the diverse ways in which power was
institutionalised and employed by lay and ecclesiastical
authorities. As such, this volume offers a uniquely comprehensive
and valuable contribution to the field of medieval history, in
particular the study of the Frankish world in the eighth and ninth
centuries. -- .
Penance has traditionally been viewed exclusively as the domain of
church history but penance and confession also had important social
functions in medieval society. In this book, Rob Meens
comprehensively reassesses the evidence from late antiquity to the
thirteenth century, employing a broad range of sources, including
letters, documentation of saints' lives, visions, liturgical texts,
monastic rules and conciliar legislation from across Europe. Recent
discoveries have unearthed fascinating new evidence, established
new relationships between key texts and given more attention to the
manuscripts in which penitential books are found. Many of these
discoveries and new approaches are revealed here for the first time
to a general audience. Providing a full and up-to-date overview of
penitential literature during the period, Meens sets the rituals of
penance and confession in their social contexts, providing the
first introduction to this fundamental feature of medieval religion
and society for more than fifty years.
Penance has traditionally been viewed exclusively as the domain of
church history but penance and confession also had important social
functions in medieval society. In this book, Rob Meens
comprehensively reassesses the evidence from late antiquity to the
thirteenth century, employing a broad range of sources, including
letters, documentation of saints' lives, visions, liturgical texts,
monastic rules and conciliar legislation from across Europe. Recent
discoveries have unearthed fascinating new evidence, established
new relationships between key texts and given more attention to the
manuscripts in which penitential books are found. Many of these
discoveries and new approaches are revealed here for the first time
to a general audience. Providing a full and up-to-date overview of
penitential literature during the period, Meens sets the rituals of
penance and confession in their social contexts, providing the
first introduction to this fundamental feature of medieval religion
and society for more than fifty years.
The Bobbio Missal was copied in south-eastern Gaul around the end
of the seventh and beginning of the eighth century. It contains a
unique combination of a lectionary and a sacramentary, to which a
plethora of canonical and non-canonical material was added. The
Missal is therefore highly regarded by liturgists; but,
additionally, medieval historians welcome the information to be
derived from material attached to the codex, which provides
valuable data about the role and education of priests in Francia at
that time, and indeed on their cultural and ideological background.
The breadth of specialist knowledge provided by the team of
scholars writing for this book enables the manuscript to be viewed
as a whole, not as a narrow liturgical study. Collectively, the
essays view the manuscript as physical object: they discuss the
contents, they examine the language, and they look at the cultural
context in which the codex was written.
The Bobbio Missal was copied in south-eastern Gaul around the end
of the seventh and beginning of the eighth century. It contains a
unique combination of a lectionary and a sacramentary, to which a
plethora of canonical and non-canonical material was added. The
Missal is therefore highly regarded by liturgists; but,
additionally, medieval historians welcome the information to be
derived from material attached to the codex, which provides
valuable data about the role and education of priests in Francia at
that time, and indeed on their cultural and ideological background.
The breadth of specialist knowledge provided by the team of
scholars writing for this book enables the manuscript to be viewed
as a whole, not as a narrow liturgical study. Collectively, the
essays view the manuscript as physical object: they discuss the
contents, they examine the language, and they look at the cultural
context in which the codex was written.
For seven years, a collaboration between the Institute for Medieval
Studies of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the Universities of
Utrecht, Cambridge, Leeds and Paris I, Sorbonne provided the
opportunity for young researchers to discuss and coordinate their
work. The title of the project and of this volume, "Texts and
identities," provides the framework for case studies in different
fields of early medieval history. They include apparently disparate
topics such as historiography and hagiography, monastic spaces and
memories, lay and ecclesiastic legislation, as well as liturgy and
penance. Rather than defining a common field of research, the
meetings from which these papers have emerged derived their
coherence from their common methodological framework. This approach
combines two elements: on the one hand, emphasis has been laid on
the careful analysis of the transmission of texts and of the
manuscript evidence; on the other, research has focused on the
problem of identity, or rather, of processes of identification,
including the perception of differences between specific social,
political and religious communities. In the combination of these
two approaches the extant texts from the early medieval period are
not only seen as mere reflections of ethnic, social and cultural
identities, but also as media that gave meaning to social practices
and were often intended to inspire, guide, change or prevent
action, directly or indirectly. The written texts that have been
transmitted to us can be seen as part of a cultural effort to shape
the present by means of restructuring the past. The often
discordant voices of medieval authors allow modern historians to
grasp something of the multiplicity of the early medieval world,
and of the disagreements, conflicts, idiosyncrasies and individual
perceptions among the people who lived in that period. Many
contributions in this volume propose specific methods for studying
changing identities. They analyse differences between similar texts
over time, or, specifically, changes in texts in the course of
their transmission. The papers collected in this volume illustrate
that texts were integral parts of a world in transformation.
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