A new history of penance / edited by Abigail Firey.

• Superior document: Brill's companions to the Christian tradition, v. 14
• Author: ProQuest (Firm)
• TeilnehmendeR: Firey, Abigail.; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's companions to the Christian tradition ; v. 14.
• Physical Description: vi, 463 p.

Table of 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.