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Title A new history of penance / edited by Abigail Firey
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 463 pages)
Series Brill's companions to the Christian tradition, 1871-6377 ; v. 14
Brill's companions to the Christian tradition ; v. 14.
Contents Introduction / Abigail Firey -- Truth, tradition, and history : the historiography of high/late medieval and early modern penance / R. Emmet McLaughlin -- The historiography of early medieval penance / Rob Meens -- Juridical administration in the church and pastoral care in late antiquity / Kevin Uhalde -- Spiritual guarantors at penance, baptism, and ordination in the late Antique East / Claudia Rapp -- Topographies of penance in the Latin West (c.800-c.1200) / Dominique Iogna-Prat, translated by Graham Robert Edwards -- Blushing before the judge and physician : moral arbitration in the Carolingian Empire / Abigail Firey -- Cum aliquis venerit ad sacerdotem : penitential experience in the Central Middle Ages / Karen Wagner -- The scholastic turn (1100-1500) penitential theology and law in the schools / Joseph Goering -- Penitential theology and law at the turn of the fifteenth century / Henry Ansgar Kelly -- Between the reality of life and the order of canon law : the Holy Apostolic Penitentiary and the supplications from Norway 1448-1531 / Torstein Jorgensen -- At heresy's door : Borromeo, penance, and confessional boundaries in early modern Europe / Wietse de Boer -- Embracing the 'true relic' of Christ : suffering, penance, and private confession in the thought of Martin Luther / Ronald K. Rittgers -- Lay piety and community identity in the early modern world / Gretchen Starr-LeBeau -- Confessors as hagiographers in early modern Catholic culture / Jodi Bilinkoff
Summary Using source materials from late antiquity to the early modern period, this title charts various 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Penance -- History of doctrines
RELIGION -- Christianity -- General.
RELIGION -- Christian Rituals & Practice -- Sacraments.
Penance -- History of doctrines
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Bot (religion) -- historia.
Form Electronic book
Author Firey, Abigail
ISBN 9789047441786
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