Sin and Society in Fourteenth-Century England
A Study of the Memoriale Presbiterorum
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 11 May 2000
- ISBN 9780198208518
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages276 pages
- Size 224x146x19 mm
- Weight 442 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
This is the first full-scale scholarly study of a fourteenth-century English confessor's manual. It contributes significantly to the European-wide research on pre-Reformation confessional practice and clerical training. On another level, the Memoriale Presbiterorum's peculiarly intense concern with social morality affords pungent commentary on contemporary English society.
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Penetrating behind the seal of medieval confession is among the most formidable historiographical challenges. One route is through confessors' manuals. This is the first full-scale scholarly study of a fourteenth-century confessor's English example. It contributes significantly to the European-wide research on pre-Reformation confessional practice and clerical training. On another level, the Memoriale Presbiterorum's peculiarly intense concern with social morality affords pungent commentary on contemporary English society.
Michael Haren analyses a remarkable treatise both as a vehicle of social doctrine and as a mirror of the milieu to which it is directed. While presenting it against its general intellectual background, continental and English, he also argues for its setting within a vigorous and largely neglected episcopal regime, that of Bishop Grandisson of Exeter. His wide-ranging exposition will interest students of moralizing literature - including Chaucer and Piers Plowman - as well as historians.
Superb study ... What makes this study especially valuable is the thoroughgoing manner in which the Memoriale is treated within its historical context ... This is an excellent work of scholarship, painstakingly researched, copiously documented and gracefully written.
