A contrite heart : prosecution and redemption in the Carolingian empire /

A contrite heart : prosecution and redemption in the Carolingian empire /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Firey, Abigail.
Imprint:	Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009.
Description:	xvii, 293 p. : ill., map ; 25 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Studies in medieval and Reformation traditions, 1573-4188 ; v. 145
Subject:	Law, Medieval. Penance -- History of doctrines. Canon law. Carolingians. Christianity and law. Church history -- Middle Ages. Law, Germanic. Law, Medieval. Penance -- History of doctrines. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7846095

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ISBN:	9789004178151 (hardback : alk. paper) 9004178155 (hardback : alk. paper)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Table of Contents:

List of Illustrations
List of Abbreviations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1. The Protection of Privacy: Secrets and Silence
Whose truth? Rumours and reports
Religious dimensions of confession: A pure and true confession of conscience
Legal dimensions of confession: Signed, sealed, and delivered
Herod's tears
Susannah: A true heart
Chapter 2. The Public Welfare: Pollution and Purgation
Tacit law: The mouse in the soup
The discourse of pollution: Pathologies and mutations
The politics of pollution and purgation
Blood libel and the disembodied soul
Purgative justice: Tears extinguish fire
Chapter 3. Authority and Piety
The prosecution of heresy, c.750: The little crosses
Israel in goatskins: Boniface and the limits of ecclesial jurisdiction
The prosecution of heresy, c.850: "Lest the baths collapse"
Angels and messiahs: The religious cosmos of popular belief
Chapter 4. Empire and Education
Liutberga'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 authority
Chapter 5. Contestation, Co-operation, Coercion, and Resistance
The decisions of the hearts: Confessors and jurisdiction
Rod and staff: The exercise of pastoral power
"Non insanio sed sanum sapio": Meritorious penance and resistance
Conclusion
Appendix A. Penitential Canons Pertaining to Dietary Pollution
Bibliography
Indices
Index Locorum
Index Personarum
Index Rerum
Index Scripturarum