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Sin and society in fourteenth-century England : a study of the Memoriale Presbiterorum / Michael Haren.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Haren, Michael, author.
- Series:
- Oxford historical monographs.
- Oxford historical monographs Sin and society in fourteenth-century England
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Memoriale Presbiterorum.
- Penitentials.
- Confession (Canon law).
- England--Social conditions--1066-1485.
- England.
- England--Church history--1066-1485.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xviii, 254 p.).
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Clarendon, 2000.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This study of a 14th-century confessor's English example contributes to the Europe-wide research on pre-Reformation confessional practice and clerical training.
- Contents:
- Intro
- TITLE PAGE
- PREFACE
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- CONTENTS
- ABBREVIATIONS
- I: Memoriale Presbiterorum: A Confessional Manual With a Social Focus
- 2: Text, Authorship, and Dating
- Internal Evidence For Authorship and Dating
- Silence of the Bibliographical Tradition
- A Clue to Authorship? The Will of William Doune
- Authorship: The Recipient of the Treatise
- Dating
- 3: The Career of an Ecclesiastical Administrator I: - Exeter
- Doune's Career at Exeter
- The Character of Grandisson's Episcopate
- 4: The Memoriale Presbiterorum: Genre, Sources, and Wider Affinities
- Genre and Sources
- The Structure and Content of the Memoriale Presbiterorum
- The Distinctive Character of the Treatise
- Literary Affinities of the Memoriale Presbiterorum
- 5: Society Under Scrutiny I: The Examination of Court Personnel and Ecclesiastical Administrators
- Society Under Scrutiny
- The Examination of Court Personnel and Ecclesiastical Administrators
- Ecclesiastical Administrators
- 6: Society Under Scrutiny II: The Examination of Lords and Knights
- 7: Society Under Scrutiny III: The Examination of Manorial and Seignorial Officials
- 8: Society Under Scrutiny IV: The Examination of Peasants
- 9: Society Under Scrutiny V: The Examination of Clerics, Regular and Secular
- Regular Clergy
- Secular Clergy
- 10: Society Under Scrutiny VI: Economic Activity: The Examination of Merchants
- Usury, Trading, and the Duties of Almsgiving
- Usury and Trading
- Almsgiving
- 11: Society Under Scrutiny VII: Miscellaneous Penitents: Pardoners, Collectors, Doctors, Hosts, Actors, Servants, Sailors
- 12: Friars as Confessors -The Author's Criticisms
- 13: The Career of an Ecclesiastical Administrator II: Lincoln and Worcester
- Doune's Career in Lincoln Diocese
- Doune's Career in Worcester Diocese.
- Doune's Relationship With his Colleagues and the Continuity of a Programme
- APPENDIX A SUMMARY ACCOUNT OF THE MANUSCRIPTS OF THE TREATISE
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [224]-242) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-154327-6
- OCLC:
- 1066184385
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