Handling Sin - Confession in the Middle Ages

Penance and confession were an integral part of medieval religious life; essays explore literary evidence.

List of contents

`Medieval Confession' and ``Confessors' manuals and the avoiding of offspring'. - Peter Biller
`The Frequency and Nature of early medieval Penance'. - Rob Meens
`Counselling in Medieval Confession'. - Alexander Murray
`Gendered Souls in Sexed Bodies: the Male Construction of Sexuality in Some Medieval Confessors' Manuals'. - Jacqueline Murray
`William of Auvergne and Confession'. - Lesley Smith
`Confession, Social Ethics and Social Discipline in the `Memoriale Presbiterorum'' and `The Interrogatories for Officials, Lawyers and Secular Estates of the `Memoriale Presbiterorum''.and Secular Estates of the `Memoriale Presbiterorum''. - Michael Haren
`The 1996 York Quodlibet Lecture, `From the Ordeal to Confession: In Search of Lay Religion in Early Thirteenth Century France''. - John Baldwin

About the author

Peter Biller, A.J. Minnis

Product details

• Assisted by: Alastair J Alastair J Minnis (Editor), Alastair J. Alastair J. Minnis (Editor), Peter Biller (Editor), Alastair J Minnis (Editor)
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.10.1998
• EAN: 9780952973416
• ISBN: 978-0-9529734-1-6
• No. of pages: 230
• Dimensions: 167 mm x 243 mm x 24 mm
• Weight: 500 g
• Series: York Studies in Medieval Theol
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Middle Ages; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works