Handling Sin

Confession in the Middle Ages
Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-1-903153-48-2
Verlag: York Medieval Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 2, 232 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 164 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 368 g

Reihe: York Studies in Medieval Theology

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

Autoren/Hrsg.

Alastair J. Minnis, Alastair J.

Biller, Peter

Weitere Mitwirkende

Murray, Alexander

Murray, Jacqueline

Baldwin, John

Smith, Lesley

Haren, Michael

Biller, Peter

Meens, Rob

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Kirchengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Praktische Theologie Liturgik, Christliche Anbetung, Sakramente, Rituale, Feiertage

Inhaltsverzeichnis

`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

Über Autor(innen)

Murray, Jacqueline
JACQUELINE MURRAY is University Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Guelph.

Biller, Peter
PETE BILLER is Professor Emeritus in the Department of History at the University of York.

Biller, Peter
PETE BILLER is Professor Emeritus in the Department of History at the University of York.

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