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Language: en
Pages: 247
Authors: David Myers
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-05-15 - Publisher: Cornell University Press

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In "Poor, Sinning Folk," W. David Myers investigates the sixteenth-century fate of the medieval Christian sacrament of penance, the process of confessing to a p
Sin and Confession in Colonial Peru
Language: en
Pages: 327
Authors: Regina Harrison
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-06-01 - Publisher: University of Texas Press

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A central tenet of Catholic religious practice, confession relies upon the use of language between the penitent and his or her confessor. In the sixteenth and s
Sinners on Trial
Language: en
Pages: 358
Authors: Magda Teter
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-05 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

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Teter casts new light on the most infamous type of sacrilege, the accusation against Jews for desecrating the eucharistic wafer. The book recounts dramatic stor
From Trent to Vatican II
Language: en
Pages: 368
Authors: Raymond F. Bulman
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006-05-25 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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The second Vatican Council was convened by Pope John XXIII between 1962 and 1965. It marked a fundamental shift toward the modern Church and its far-reaching in
A New History of Penance
Language: en
Pages: 473
Authors: Abigail Firey
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008 - Publisher: BRILL

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Using hitherto unconsidered source materials from late antiquity to the early modern period, this volume charts new views about the role of penance in shaping w