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 western attitudes and practices for resolving social, political, and spiritual tensions, as penitents and confessors negotiated rituals and expectations for penitential expression.
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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 western attitudes and practices for resolving social, political, and spiritual tensions, as penitents and confessors negotiated rituals and expectations for penitential expression.
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Good+ No Jacket. Book. 8vo-over 7¾-9¾" tall. viii, 463pp., (i). Mildly ex-library, as exterior library treatments have cleaned up nicely, leaving faint wear to wear 2 separate stickers used to be. Several very minor dings to extremities of covers. Minor edge wear to a small number of leaves. Text clean. Binding sound.
