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Sin and Society in Fourteenth-Century England: A Study of the Memoriale Presbiterorum »

Authors: Michael Haren
ISBN-13: 9780198208518, ISBN-10: 0198208510
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date Published: July 2000
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Michael Haren

Book Synopsis

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.

	Abbreviations
1	The Memoriale Presbiterorum: A Confessional Manual With a Social Focus	1
2	Text, Authorship, and Dating	6
3	The Career of an Ecclesiastical Administrator I: - Exeter	39
4	The Memoriale Presbiterorum: Genre, Sources, and Wider Affinities	66
5	Society Under Scrutiny I: The Examination of Court Personnel and Ecclesiastical Administrators	82
6	Society Under Scrutiny II: The Examination of Lords and Knights	111
7	Society Under Scrutiny III: The Examination of Manorial and Seignorial Officials	125
8	Society Under Scrutiny IV: The Examination of Peasants	143
9	Society Under Scrutiny V: The Examination of Clerics, Regular and Secular	151
10	Society Under Scrutiny VI: Economic Activity: The Examination of Merchants; Usury, Trading, and the Duties of Almsgiving	163
11	Society Under Scrutiny VII: Miscellaneous Penitents: Pardoners, Collectors, Doctors, Hosts, Actors, Servants, Sailors, Women, and Children	174
12	Friars as Confessors - The Author's Criticisms	185
13	The Career of an Ecclesiastical Administrator II: Lincoln and Worcester	190
	Appendix	217
	Bibliography	224
	Index	243