{"product_id":"handling-sin-peter-biller-9781903153482","title":"Handling Sin: Confession in the Middle Ages","description":"Penance, 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Peter Biller\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1903153484\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781903153482\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\/17\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 232\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.74lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.50d","brand":"Peter Biller","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44169914515711,"sku":"9781903153482","price":36.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_11712357-2b89-4cb3-bb35-724f10ff884e.jpg?v=1689655659","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/handling-sin-peter-biller-9781903153482","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}