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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mansfield, Mary C., 1960-1989, author.

Contributor:

American Council of Learned Societies.

Series:

ACLS Humanities E-Book.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Catholic Church--Discipline--History.

Catholic Church.

Penance--History of doctrines--Middle Ages, 600-1500.

Penance.

Penance--France--History.

France--Church history--987-1515.

France.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 343 p. ) ill. ;

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018]

Language Note:

English

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.

Contents:

Front matter

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

Notes:

Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of California, Berkeley, 1989, originally presented under the title: The public humiliation of sinners.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [305]-333) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Mrz 2019)

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ISBN:

9781501724688

1501724681

OCLC:

811408906