Anticipating sin in Medieval society : childhood, sexuality, and violence in the early penitentials / Erin V. Abraham.
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 rev...
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| Language: | English |
| Published: | Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2017. ©2017 |
| Series: | Knowledge communities (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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