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The Humiliation of Sinners : Public Penance in Thirteenth-Century France / Mary Mansfield.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018]Copyright date: ©2005Description: 1 online resource (360 p.) : 1 table, 5 halftonesContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781501724688
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 265.6094409022 22
LOC classification:
  • BX2263.F8 M36 1995 E-book
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources:
Contents:
Frontmatter -- 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
Summary: This compelling book, first published in 1995, changed historians' understanding of the history of public penance, a topic crucial to debates about the complex evolution of individualism in the West. Mary C. Mansfield demonstrates that various forms of public humiliation, imposed on nobles and peasants alike for shocking crimes as well as for minor brawls, survived into the thirteenth century and beyond.
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Frontmatter -- 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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This compelling book, first published in 1995, changed historians' understanding of the history of public penance, a topic crucial to debates about the complex evolution of individualism in the West. Mary C. Mansfield demonstrates that various forms of public humiliation, imposed on nobles and peasants alike for shocking crimes as well as for minor brawls, survived into the thirteenth century and beyond.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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