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 - introduction, 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 sexualtiy in some medieval confessors' manuals, Jacqueline Murray; William of Auvergne and confession, Lesley Smith; confession, social ethics and social discipline in the "Memoriale Presbiterorum", Michael Hare; the interrogatories of officials, lawyers and secular estates of the "Memoriale Presbiterorum" - edition and translation; confessors' manuals and the avoiding of offspring, Peter Biller; the 1996 York Quodlibet Lecture - from the ordeal to confession - in search of lay religion in early-13th-century France.

Product details

• Authors: Peter Biller, A. J. Minnis
• Assisted by: Peter Biller (Editor), A. J. Minnis (Editor), Alastair J. Minnis (Editor)
• Publisher: York Medieval Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.1998
• No. of pages: 232
• Dimensions: 163 mm x 238 mm x 19 mm
• Weight: 520 g
• Series: York Studies in Medieval Theol
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology