A New History of Penance
Biographical note
Abigail Firey, Ph.D. (1995) in Medieval Studies, University of Toronto, is Associate Professor of History at the University of Kentucky. Her publications explore the cultural and intellectual contexts of early medieval canon law, most recently in A Contrite Heart: Prosecution and Redemption in the Carolingian Empire (Brill, in press).
Readership
Scholars and students interested in the cultural and intellectual history of Late Antiquity, the Middle Ages, the early modern period (Europe/New World), especially with respect to religious history, theology, legal history, Judaic studies, historiography, hagiography, ritual, and Latin literature.
Reviews
“An excellent starting point for those interested in the history of penance.”
Christopher Ohan, American University of Kuwait. In: The Sixteenth Century Journal, Vol. 41, No. 3 (Fall 2010), pp. 841-842.
"This book will be useful to new students and advanced scholars interested in the long history of penance or the myriad of exciting approaches now being cultivated."
Owen M. Phelan, Mount Saint Mary’s. In: Religious Studies Review, Vol. 37, No. 1 (March 2011), p. 67.
Christopher Ohan, American University of Kuwait. In: The Sixteenth Century Journal, Vol. 41, No. 3 (Fall 2010), pp. 841-842.
"This book will be useful to new students and advanced scholars interested in the long history of penance or the myriad of exciting approaches now being cultivated."
Owen M. Phelan, Mount Saint Mary’s. In: Religious Studies Review, Vol. 37, No. 1 (March 2011), p. 67.
Table of contents
Acknowledgements
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 and 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 Jørgensen
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
About the Contributors
Index
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 and 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 Jørgensen
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
About the Contributors
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