Handling sin : confession in the Middle Ages /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Biller, Peter, Minnis, A. J. (Alastair J.)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Woodbridge, Suffolk ; Rochester, NY : York Medieval Press, 1998.
Series:	York studies in medieval theology. 2.
Subjects:	Confession > History of doctrines > Middle Ages, 600-1500 > Congresses. Penance > History of doctrines > Middle Ages, 600-1500 > Congresses. Penitentials > History.

Table of Contents:

Confession in the Middle Ages: 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 female 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 / Michael Haren
The interrogatories for officials, lawyers and secular estates of the Memoriale presbiterorum: edition and translation / Michael Haren
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 thirteenth century France / John Baldwin.