The humiliation of sinners : public penance in thirteenth-century France

The humiliation of sinners : public penance in thirteenth-century France / Mary C. Mansfield.

Annotation The Humiliation of Sinners is the work of a formidable scholar whose intensive research ... produced a bold reinterpretation of the history of medieval penance. - Catholic Historical Review "Mansfield's book challenges long-held assumptions about the disappearance of public pena...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mansfield, Mary C., 1960-1989 (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1995.
Subjects:
Catholic Church > Discipline > History.
Catholic Church
987-1515
Penance > History > France.
HISTORY > Medieval.
Discipline
Penance
France > Church history > 987-1515.
France
Church history
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Front matter
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • CHAPTER ONE. Penance and Privacy
  • CHAPTER TWO. The Failure of a Theology of Private Penance
  • CHAPTER THREE. The Publicity of Private Penance
  • CHAPTER FOUR. The Varieties of Public Penance
  • CHAPTER FIVE. Collective Expiation, Collective Rejoicing
  • CHAPTER SIX. The Liturgy of Penance and the Roman Tradition
  • CHAPTER SEVEN. The Transformation of Public Penance In Northern French Pontificals, ca. 1150-1350
  • CHAPTER EIGHT. Penance in the Cities
  • CHAPTER NINE. Public Penance and Communal Religion
  • Appendix
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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