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Penitence in the Age of Reformations
276 Pages
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Routledge
276 Pages
by
Routledge
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This volume is comprised of thirteen essays that explore penitential teachings and practices from the late fifteenth to the early seventeenth centuries in Western Europe and its colonies. Together the essays reveal that in this period, penitence was an increasingly important force shaping the individual and society. Consequently, the authors argue, penitence is central to our understanding of... Read more
Contents: Introduction; Katharine Jackson Lualdi and Anne T. Thayer; Judge and doctor: images of the confessor in printed model sermon collections, 1450-1520, Anne T. Thayer; Communication, consolation and discipline: two early Lutheran preachers on confession, Mary Jane Haemig; Private confession and religious authority in Reformation Nürnberg, Ronald K. Rittgers; Richard Greenham’s ’spiritual physicke’: the comfort of afflicted consciences in Elizabethan pastoral care, Kenneth L. Parker; Notions of sin and penitence within the French reformed community, Raymond A. Mentzer; The rituals of reconciliation: admonition, confession and community in the Dutch reformed church, Charles H. Parker; The politics of the soul: confession in counter-reformation Milan, Wietse de Boer; A body of beliefs and believers: sacramental confession and parish worship in Reformation France, Katharine Jackson Lualdi; Johannes Uhl on penitence: sermons and prayers of the dean of Rottweil, 1579-1602, Jason K. Nye; Confession, gender, life-writing: some cases (mainly) from Spain, Jodi Bilinkoff; Confession and consolation: the Society of Jesus and its promotion of the general confession, Michael Maher, SJ; ’Schools of Mortification’: theatricality and the role of penitential practice in the Jesuits’ popular missions, Jennifer D. Selwyn; Jesuit confessors, African slaves and the practice of confession in seventeenth-century Cartagena, Ronald J. Morgan; Postscript, Thomas N. Tentler; Bibliography; Index.
Biography
Lualdi, Katharine Jackson; Thayer, Anne T.
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