Contrite Heart: Prosecution and Redemption in the Carolingian Empire

Inbunden, Engelska, 2009

Del 145 i serien Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions

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Between the middle of the eighth century and the late ninth century in western Europe, the course of legal history was shaped by interaction with religious ideas, especially with regard to the meaning of confession, suffering, and the balance of protections for an accused individual and the welfare of the community. This book traces those themes through a selection of Carolingian texts, such as archbishop Hincmar's legal analysis of a royal divorce, the decrees of church councils, the biography of a Saxon holy woman, anti-Judaic treatises, and Hrotswitha's dramatisation of the legend of Thaïs, in order to make audible the lively debates over the boundaries of clerical and lay authority, the nature and extent of permissible intervention in the spiritual condition of the empire's inhabitants, and distinctions between the private and public domains. This work thus reveals the profound relation between law and penitential ideologies promoted by the Carolingian imperial court.

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Utgivningsdatum:2009-09-21
Mått:160 x 240 x 19 mm
Vikt:681 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions
Antal sidor:294
Förlag:Brill
ISBN:9789004178151

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Abigail Firey, Ph.D. (1995) in Medieval Studies, University of Toronto, is Associate Professor of History at the University of Kentucky. She has published articles on Carolingian canon law and its cultural and intellectual contexts, and is directing the digital Carolingian Canon Law project . She edited A New History of Penance (Brill, 2008).

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List of Illustrations List of AbbreviationsAcknowledgementsIntroduction1. The Protection of Privacy: Secrets and SilenceWhose Truth? Rumours and ReportsReligious Dimensions of Confession: A Pure and True Confession of ConscienceLegal Dimensions of Confession: Signed, Sealed, and DeliveredHerod’s TearsSusannah: A True Heart2. The Public Welfare: Pollution and PurgationTacit Law: The Mouse in the SoupThe Discourse of Pollution: Pathologies and MutationsThe Politics of Pollution and PurgationBlood Libel and the Disembodied SoulPurgative Justice: Tears Extinguish Fire3. Authority and PietyThe Prosecution of Heresy, c.750: The Little CrossesIsrael in Goatskins: Boniface and the Limits of Ecclesial JurisdictionThe Prosecution of Heresy, c.850: “Lest the Baths Collapse”Angels and Messiahs: The Religious Cosmos of Popular Belief4. Empire and EducationLiutberga’s Confessions: The Court of Conscience in the Carolingian Rhineland“Fear is the Beginning of Wisdom”: Penance at the Frontiers of Empire“They do not cure, but bathe and stroke”: Debates over Penitential Authority5. Contestation, Co-operation, Coercion, and ResistanceThe Decisions of the Hearts: Confessors and JurisdictionRod and Staff: The Exercise of Pastoral Power“Non insanio sed sanum sapio”: Meritorious Penance and ResistanceConclusionBibliographyIndicesIndex locorumIndex personarumIndex rerumIndex locorum Sacrae Scripturae