A New History of Penance

Erscheinungsjahr 2008
ISBN: 978-90-04-12212-3
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 14, 464 Seiten, Format (B × H): 169 mm x 250 mm, Gewicht: 899 g

Reihe: Brill's Companions to the Christian Tradition

Between the third and sixteenth centuries, penance (the acts or gestures performed to atone for transgression, usually with an interest in the salvation of the penitent’s soul) was a crucial mode of participation in both society and the cosmos. Penance was incorporated into political and legal negotiations, it erupted in improvisational social dramas, it was subject to experimentation and innovation, and it saturated western culture with images of contrition, suffering, and reconciliation. During the late antique, medieval, and early modern periods, rituals for the correction of human errors became both sophisticated and popular. Creativity in penitential expression reflects the range and complexity of social and spiritual situations in which penance was vital. Using hitherto unconsidered source materials, the contributors chart new views on how in western culture, human conduct was modulated and directed in patterns shaped by the fearsome yet embraced practices of penance.

Contributors are R. Emmet McLaughlin, Rob Meens, Kevin Uhalde, Claudia Rapp, Dominique Iogna-Prat, Abigail Firey, Karen Wagner, Joseph Goering, H. Ansgar Kelly, Torstein Jørgensen, Wietse de Boer, Ronald K. Rittgers, Gretchen Starr-LeBeau, and Jodi Bilinkoff.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Firey, Abigail

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Praktische Theologie Liturgik, Christliche Anbetung, Sakramente, Rituale, Feiertage

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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).