A new history of penance / edited by Abigail Firey.

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 pen...

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Other Authors: Firey, Abigail
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2008.
Series:Brill's companions to the Christian tradition ; v. 14.
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