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Title: Handling Sin
Condition: New
Subtitle: Confession in the Middle Ages
Author: Alexander Murray
Contributor: Peter Biller (Edited by), Alastair J. Minnis (Edited by), Alexander Murray (Contributions by), Jacqueline Murray (Contributions by), John Baldwin (Contributions by), Lesley Smith (Contributions by), Michael Haren (Contributions by), Peter Biller (Contributions by), Rob Meens (Contributions by)
Format: Hardback
ISBN-10: 0952973413
EAN: 9780952973416
ISBN: 9780952973416
Publisher: York Medieval Press
Genre: History
Topic: Philosophy & Spirituality, Literary Criticism
Release Date: 29/10/1998
Description: 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
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Item Height: 234mm
Item Length: 156mm
Item Weight: 1g
Book Series: York Studies in Medieval Theology
Release Year: 1998

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