"Poor Sinning Folk" : : Confession and Conscience in Counter-Reformation Germany / / David Myers.

In "Poor, Sinning Folk," W. David Myers investigates the sixteenth-century fate of the medieval Christian sacrament of penance, the process of confessing to a priest in secret one's sins against God and other humans. In Pre-Reformation Germany, numerous layers of public ritual, expect...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
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Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019]
©1996
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (224 p.) :; 6 b&w illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • I. Late-Medieval and Reformation Confession
  • II. The Catholic Reformation and Sacramental Confession
  • Bibliography
  • Index