New History of Penance

Abigail Firey, Ph.D. (1995) in Medieval Studies, University of Toronto, is Associate Professor of History at the University of Kentucky. Her publications explore the cultural and intellectual contexts of early medieval canon law, most recently in A Contrite Heart: Prosecution and Redemption in the Carolingian Empire (Brill, in press).

“An excellent starting point for those interested in the history of penance.”Christopher Ohan, American University of Kuwait. In: The Sixteenth Century Journal, Vol. 41, No. 3 (Fall 2010), pp. 841-842."This book will be useful to new students and advanced scholars interested in the long history of penance or the myriad of exciting approaches now being cultivated." Owen M. Phelan, Mount Saint Mary’s. In: Religious Studies Review, Vol. 37, No. 1 (March 2011), p. 67.

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction, Abigail FireyTruth, Tradition, and History: The Historiography of High/Late Medieval and Early Modern Penance, R. Emmet McLaughlinThe Historiography of Early Medieval Penance, Rob MeensJuridical Administration in the Church and Pastoral Care in Late Antiquity, Kevin UhaldeSpiritual Guarantors at Penance, Baptism, and Ordination in the Late Antique East, Claudia RappTopographies of Penance in the Latin West (c.800–c.1200), Dominique Iogna-Prat and translated by Graham Robert EdwardsBlushing before the Judge and Physician: Moral Arbitration in the Carolingian Empire, Abigail FireyCum aliquis venerit ad sacerdotem: Penitential Experience in the Central Middle Ages, Karen WagnerThe Scholastic Turn (1100–1500): Penitential Theology and Law in the Schools, Joseph GoeringPenitential Theology and Law at the Turn of the Fifteenth Century, Henry Ansgar KellyBetween the Reality of Life and the Order of Canon Law: The Holy Apostolic Penitentiary and the Supplications from Norway 1448–1531, Torstein JørgensenAt Heresy’s Door: Borromeo, Penance, and Confessional Boundaries in Early Modern Europe, Wietse de BoerEmbracing the ‘True Relic’ of Christ: Suffering, Penance, and Private Confession in the Thought of Martin Luther, Ronald K. RittgersLay Piety and Community Identity in the Early Modern World, Gretchen Starr-LeBeauConfessors as Hagiographers in Early Modern Catholic Culture, Jodi BilinkoffAbout the ContributorsIndex