{"product_id":"handling-sin-9780952973416","title":"Handling Sin","description":"\u003cb\u003ePenance and confession were an integral part of medieval religious life; essays explore literary evidence.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePenance, confession and their texts (penitential and confessors' manuals) are important topics for an understanding of the middle ages, in relation to a wide range of issues, from medieval social thought to Chaucer's background. These essays treat a variety of different aspects of the topic: subjects include the frequency and character of early medieval penance; the \u003ci\u003esummae\u003c\/i\u003e and manuals for confessors, and the ways in which these texts (written by males for males) constructed women as sexual in nature; William of Auvergne's remarkable writing on penance; and the relevance of confessors' manuals for demographic history. JOHN BALDWIN's major study `From the Ordeal to  Confession', delivered as a Quodlibet lecture, traces the appearance in French romances of the themes of a penitent's contrition, the priest's job in listening, and the application of the spiritual \u003ci\u003econseil\u003c\/i\u003e and penitence.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  PETER BILLER is Professor of Medieval History at the University of York; A.J. MINNIS is Douglas Tracy Smith Professor of English, Yale University.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Contributors: PETER BILLER, ROB MEENS, ALEXANDER MURRAY, JACQUELINE MURRAY, LESLEY SMITH, MICHAEL HAREN, JOHN BALDWIN","brand":"Peter Biller","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48280268243195,"sku":"9780952973416","price":120.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/9780952973416.jpg?v=1772483435","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/handling-sin-9780952973416","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}