Medieval Handbooks of Penance

Medieval Handbooks of Penance
Author: John Thomas McNeill
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 500
Release: 1990
Genre: Electronic books
ISBN: 0231096291

Penance in the ancient church -- The penitentials -- The condition of the texts -- Early Irish penitential documents -- Early Welsh penitential documents -- Penitentials of the Anglo-Saxon church -- Penitentials by Irish authors which were apparently compiled on the continent -- Anonymous and pseudonymous Frankish and Visigothic penitentials of the eighth and ninth centuries -- Penitentials written or authorized by Frankish ecclesiastics -- Selections from later penitential documents -- Penitential elements in medieval public law -- Synodical decisions and ecclesiastical opinions relating to the penitentials -- An eighth-century list of superstitions -- Selections from the customs of Tallaght -- Irish canons from a Worcester collection -- On documents omitted -- The manuscripts of the penitentials.

Medieval Handbooks of Penance

Medieval Handbooks of Penance
Author: John T. McNeill
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018
Genre: Penitentials
ISBN:

"Guidelines for medieval clerics on how to assign appropriate penances for particular sins, in readable translations with detailed introductions. Crucial evidence for the nature of the early medieval church ... The readable translations and detailed introductions provided here for each document make the material easily accessible. (Carolyn Bynum, Columbia University)".

Penance in Medieval Europe, 600-1200

Penance in Medieval Europe, 600-1200
Author: Rob Meens
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 293
Release: 2014-07-17
Genre: History
ISBN: 052187212X

An up-to-date overview of the functions and contexts of penance in medieval Europe, revealing the latest research and interpretations.

A New History of Penance

A New History of Penance
Author: Abigail Firey
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 473
Release: 2008
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004122125

Using hitherto unconsidered source materials from late antiquity to the early modern period, this volume charts new views about the role of penance in shaping western attitudes and practices for resolving social, political, and spiritual tensions, as penitents and confessors negotiated rituals and expectations for penitential expression.

The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Christianity

The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Christianity
Author: John H. Arnold
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Total Pages: 664
Release: 2014-08-21
Genre: History
ISBN: 0191015016

The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Christianity takes as its subject the beliefs, practices, and institutions of the Christian Church between 400 and 1500AD. It addresses topics ranging from early medieval monasticism to late medieval mysticism, from the material wealth of the Church to the spiritual exercises through which certain believers might attempt to improve their souls. Each chapter tells a story, but seeks also to ask how and why 'Christianity' took particular forms at particular moments in history, paying attention to both the spiritual and otherwordly aspects of religion, and the material and political contexts in which they were often embedded. This Handbook is a landmark academic collection that presents cutting-edge interpretive perspectives on medieval religion for a wide academic audience, drawing together thirty key scholars in the field from the United States, the UK, and Europe. Notably, the Handbook is arranged thematically, and focusses on an analytical, rather than narrative, approach, seeking to demonstrate the variety, change, and complexity of religion throughout this long period, and the numerous different ways in which modern scholarship can approach it. While providing a very wide-ranging view of the subject, it also offers an important agenda for further study in the field.

The Oxford Handbook of the Merovingian World

The Oxford Handbook of the Merovingian World
Author: Bonnie Effros
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 1166
Release: 2020
Genre: History
ISBN: 0190234180

Examines research from a variety of fields, including archaeology, bio-archaeology, architecture, hagiographic literature, manuscripts, liturgy, visionary literature and eschalology, patristics, numismatics, and material culture, Diverse list of contributors, many whose research has never before been available in English, Provides substantial research regarding women's history in the Merovingian period, Expands research beyond Europe to include other cultures that came in contact with the Merovingians Book jacket.

The Merchant in the Confessional

The Merchant in the Confessional
Author: Odd Langholm
Publisher:
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2003
Genre: Religion
ISBN:

Based on a comprehensive study of penitential handbooks, from the earliest times to the Reformation, this volume records a tradition that examines trade and price from the point of view of sin and penance as taught by the medieval Church.

Anticipating Sin in Medieval Society

Anticipating Sin in Medieval Society
Author: Erin V. Abraham
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017
Genre: Middle Ages
ISBN: 9789462983717

This book is an early medieval social history based on the early penitentials, with up-to-date translations of these often-ignored or misunderstood texts.

The Modulated Scream

The Modulated Scream
Author: Esther Cohen
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 409
Release: 2009
Genre: History
ISBN: 0226112675

This book provides an integral, readable account of changing attitudes toward pain in late medieval Europe. Since pain itself cannot be known, the book looks at pain by chronicling what people wrote about it, and what they did with and about that.

The Spitz Master

The Spitz Master
Author: Gregory Clark
Publisher: Getty Publications
Total Pages: 106
Release: 2003
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0892367121

Clark examines the book of hours in the context of medieval culture, the book trade in Paris, and the role of Paris as an international center of illumination. 64 illustrations, 40 in color.