{"product_id":"handling-sin-peter-biller-9780952973416","title":"Handling Sin: Confession in the Middle Ages","description":"Penance and confession were an integral part of medieval religious life; essays explore literary evidence. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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 summae 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 conseil and penitence. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Contributors: PETER BILLER, ROB MEENS, ALEXANDER MURRAY, JACQUELINE MURRAY, LESLEY SMITH, MICHAEL HAREN, JOHN BALDWIN\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Peter Biller\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0952973413\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780952973416\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e York Medieval Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/29\/1998\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 230\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.11lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.56d","brand":"Peter Biller","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44069415420159,"sku":"9780952973416","price":115.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_0d8c37d3-304a-4928-8891-71ae616c2d0e.jpg?v=1685424586","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/handling-sin-peter-biller-9780952973416","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}