Sin and Society in Fourteenth-Century England: A Study of the Memoriale Presbiterorum
- ISBN-10
- 0191543276
- ISBN-13
- 9780191543272
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 276
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2000-05-11
- Publisher
- Clarendon Press
- Author
- Michael Haren
Description
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.
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