Erin Vanessia Abraham

Anticipating Sin in Medieval Society

Childhood, Sexuality, and Violence in the Early Penitentials

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book is an early medieval social history based on the early penitentials, with up-to-date translations of these often-ignored or misunderstood texts.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 196
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. August 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 464g
• ISBN-13: 9789462983717
• ISBN-10: 9462983712
• Artikelnr.: 47828989

Autorenporträt

Dr Abraham is a lecturer in the Honors Program and an adjunct lecturer in the History and Religious Studies departments at the University of Wyoming in Laramie, Wyoming.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1: Little Books of Penance: An Introduction to the Sources 2:
The Aetas Infantes: Speech and the Limits of Childhood Innocence 3: The
Games of Youth: Puberty, Culpability, and Autonomy 4: Children of Eve:
Lawful Marriage and the Reguation of Sexual Intercourse 5: Heirs of Sodom:
Sexual Deviance, Pollution, and Community 6: Siblings of Cain: Social
Violence and the Gendering of Sin Conclusion