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Anticipating sin in Medieval society : childhood, sexuality, and violence in the early penitentials /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Amsterdam :
Amsterdam University Press,
2017.
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| Colección: | Knowledge communities (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Table of Contents; Introduction; 1. Little Books of Penance; Introduction to the Sources; The Penitential of Finnian; The Ambrosian Penitential; The Penitential of Columbanus; The Penitential of Cummean; The Burgundian Penitential; The Penitential of Theodore; The Penitential of Ecgbert; The Bigotian Penitential; The Old Irish Penitential; Influences; Community; Penance; Subjectivity in Practice; 2. The Aetas Infantes; Speech and the Limits of Childhood Innocence; The Language of Childhood; An Age of Infancy; Doli Capax; Little Sinners; Vulnerable Infants; Shared Anxieties
- 3. The Games of YouthPuberty, Culpability, and Autonomy; Between Childhood and Adulthood; Youths in Religious Communities; Sexual Oppression and Pollution; A Spectrum of Youth and Culpability; Young Females; Dependence and Autonomy; Sex, Age, and Status; 4. Children of Eve; Lawful Marriage and the Regulation of Sexual Intercourse; Regulating Sex in Marriage; Adultery; Challenging Illicit Unions; Dissolution of Conjugal Unions; Religious Vows and Sexual Legitimacy; 5. Heirs of Sodom; Sexual Deviance, Pollution, and Community; Lust, Pollution, and Self-Discipline; Pastoral Duties and Temptation
- Terminology, Placement, and EquivalenceTransmitting Pollution; Incest and Social Contamination; Women and Deviant Sex; The Sin of Sodom; 6. Siblings of Cain; Social Violence and the Gendering of Sin; Maleficia; Abortion as Violence; Violence against Children; Violence as a Gendered Sin; Violence and Status; Reverberations; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index; List of Tables; Table 1â#x80;#x83;Demographics; Table 2â#x80;#x83;General Topics; Table 3â#x80;#x83;Penitential Components