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Penance; History

  • A New History of Penanceby Abigail Firey

    BRILL 2008; US$ 182.00

    Using source materials from late antiquity to the early modern period, this title charts various views about the role of penance in shaping western attitudes and practices for resolving social, political, and spiritual tensions, as penitents and confessors negotiated rituals and expectations for penitential expression. more...

  • Possession, Puritanism and Printby Marion Gibson

    Pickering & Chatto Publishers 2006; US$ 99.00

    This monograph tells a compelling story of injustice and passionate resistance to religious persecution in the last years of Queen Elizabeth?s reign. Through an analysis of a sensational series of demonic possessions and exorcisms, it highlights the existence of controversies in print in the late Elizabethan period of the kind that would one day lead... more...

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