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

Contributor(s): Biller, Peter | Minnis, A. J. (Alastair J.)
Material type: TextTextSeries: York studies in medieval theology: 2.Publisher: Woodbridge, Suffolk ; Rochester, NY : York Medieval Press, 1998Description: x, 219 pages ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0952973413 (alk. paper); 9780952973416 (alk. paper)Subject(s): Confession -- History of doctrines -- Middle Ages, 600-1500 -- Congresses | Penance -- History of doctrines -- Middle Ages, 600-1500 -- Congresses | Penitentials -- HistoryDDC classification: 265/.6/0902 LOC classification: BX2262 | .H36 1998Bibliography, Etc. 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.

This volume comprises papers delivered at a conference held by the University of York's Centre for Medieval Studies at King's Manor, York, on March 9th, 1996, under the title Confession in Medieval Culture and Society.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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