Research Catalog

Title

Handling sin : confession in the Middle Ages / edited by Peter Biller and A.J. Minnis.

Publication

Woodbridge, Suffolk ; Rochester, NY : York Medieval Press, 1998.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Biller, Peter.
• Minnis, A. J. (Alastair J.)

Description

x, 219 p.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

York studies in medieval theology, 1366-9656 ; 2

Subjects

• Penitentials > History
• Penance > History of doctrines > Middle Ages, 600-1500 > Congresses
• Confession > History of doctrines > Middle Ages, 600-1500 > Congresses

Note

• Papers delivered at a conference held Mar. 9, 1996, at King's Manor, York.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Call Number

JFE 99-1904

ISBN

0952973413 (hc. : alk. paper)

LCCN

98017971

OCLC

38883872

Title

Handling sin : confession in the Middle Ages / edited by Peter Biller and A.J. Minnis.

Imprint

Woodbridge, Suffolk ; Rochester, NY : York Medieval Press, 1998.

Series

York studies in medieval theology, 1366-9656 ; 2

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Biller, Peter.

Minnis, A. J. (Alastair J.)

Research Call Number

JFE 99-1904