1st Edition
Anticipating Sin in Medieval Society Childhood, Sexuality, and Violence in the Early Penitentials
By Erin Vanessia Abraham
Copyright 2017
194 Pages
by
Routledge
194 Pages
by
Routledge
194 Pages
by
Routledge
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Composed between the sixth and ninth centuries, penitentials were little books of penance that address a wide range of human fallibility. But they are far more than mere registers of sin and penance: rather, by revealing the multiple contexts in which their authors anticipated various sins, they reveal much about the ways those authors and, presumably, their audiences understood a variety of... Read more
Introduction 1: Little Books of Penance: An Introduction to the Sources 2: The Aetas Infantes: Speech and the Limits of Childhood Innocence 3: The Games of Youth: Puberty, Culpability, and Autonomy 4: Children of Eve: Lawful Marriage and the Reguation of Sexual Intercourse 5: Heirs of Sodom: Sexual Deviance, Pollution, and Community 6: Siblings of Cain: Social Violence and the Gendering of Sin Conclusion
Biography
Dr Abraham is a lecturer in the Honors Program and an adjunct lecturer in the History and Religious Studies departments at the University of Wyoming in Laramie, Wyoming.
