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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 Senior Lecturer in Medieval History at the University of Yor; A.J. Minnis is Professor of Medieval Literature at the University of York. The contributors include: Peter Biller, Rob Meens, Alexander Murray, Jacqueline Murray, Lesley Smith, Michael Haren, and John Baldwin.

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Book category Books in English Humanities Religion & beliefs Christianity

• Full title: Handling Sin
• Author: Peter Biller
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 230
• EAN: 9780952973416
• ISBN: 0952973413
• ID: 04764349
• Publisher: York Medieval Press
• Weight: 494 g
• Dimensions: 234 × 156 × 21 mm
• Date of publishing: 29. October 1998

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