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...Lynn Staley Duke University Press 2007 a The Penitential Psalms: Conversion and the Limits of Lordship Lynn Staley...

...Julie Paulson © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 a A Theater of the Soul’s Interior: Contemplative Literature and Penitential Education...

...Heather Hirschfeld This essay explores the penitential structure of Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice in the context of the Reformation reorientation of human agency in matters of atonement. It suggests that the Protestant attack on the Roman sacrament of penance resulted, for both sides...

...Jessica Rosenfeld Medieval penitential writings often proclaim envy to be the “worst” sin because it is committed without pleasure. Envy thus poses a problem for traditional moral frameworks that suggest sin can be avoided by turning one’s desire away from earthly pleasures — envious desire...

... childe” strives to understand sin, guilt, and culpability within the constraints of humanity’s limited self- knowledge. Julian both works within and transcends established scriptural and penitential traditions of representing childhood, childlikeness, and the related quality of meekness, a key virtue...

... that the Tractatus is an intricately designed text that uses these generic features to dispel doubt, thereby positioning Owein’s pilgrimage as a licit and potentially replicable penitential activity. Copyright © 2021 Duke University Press 2021 medieval pilgrimage writing Saint Patrick’s Purgatory chansons...

... scenarios as characteristically Catholic and Protestant involves a speech-act analysis, which replaces notions of cause and effect with notions of the direction of illocutionary force. This approach allows us to acknowledge the important differences between Catholic and Protestant penitential understandings...

...Clarissa Chenovick Henry of Lancaster's Livre de Seyntz Medicines is a vividly medicalized penitential narrative composed by a leading lay nobleman of fourteenth-century England. Grounded in the physiology of the medieval heart, Lancaster's understudied Livre demonstrates how medieval medical...

..., penitential ethics, and biblical hermeneutics. The contributions also explicate the way a premodern or early modern discourse deploys and sometimes defines intentionalism. [email protected] Copyright © 2023 by Duke University Press 2023 This content is made freely available by the publisher...

... Avranches 136,” Sacris erudiri 17 (1966): 5–54, at 15. 20 The penitential canons of John of God, from 1247, note that venial sins can be remitted through prayer: Pierre J. Payer, “The Origins and Development of the Later canones penitentiales ,” Mediaeval Studies 61 (1999): 81–105, at 101...

...” of tribulation. 53 Amy Appleford has described this perspective on sin and suffering as ascetic in character. She distinguishes between ascetic discourse, which she locates in a number of Middle English treatments of temptation and tribulation, and the penitential genre into which scholars often group...

... account of pre-­Reformation theology is erroneous, according to Shuger. Let us, she suggests, take a good look at how “late medieval Catholic theol- ogy envisaged the process of meriting salvation through penitential works.” Her test case is William Allen’s A defense and declaration of the Catholike...

... in legal and penitential discourse especially. We invite submissions from late medievalists and early modernists in a range of disciplines (penitential theology, law, biblical hermeneutics, and literature especially) that draw on their historical vantage point to elucidate and refresh the interpretative...

... is historically grounded: intention rose dramatically from the early twelfth century as a heuristic device in legal and penitential discourse especially. We invite submissions from late medievalists and early modernists in a range of disciplines (penitential theology, law, biblical hermeneutics, and literature...

... Durham, North Carolina I begin with a story, an exemplum from Jacob’s Well, a fifteenth-century penitential text written in English by an anonymous author.1 While lying on his deathbed, Justice Herkenbald, famed for his impartiality in admin- istering the law, hears a woman crying out from...

..., further role to play in any reevaluation of how intention might function interpretatively. Our notion of intention is historically grounded: intention rose dramatically from the early twelfth century as a heuristic device in legal and penitential discourse especially. We invite submissions from late...

... intention might function interpretatively. Our notion of intention is historically grounded: intention rose dramatically from the early twelfth century as a heuristic device in legal and penitential discourse especially. We invite submissions from late medievalists and early modernists in a range...

... their way to heaven.”46 Male-domi- nant culture presented the Repenties with a hagiographic penitential model to follow if they were to be successful assimilating into the moral order of their culture. The order’s success depended on its appropriation of this model. 116 Journal of Medieval and Early...

... which either of them bring forth, to the end to beware least wee dash our selves unawares against vice in stead of virtue.” 11 His calls to wariness, though they have histories in the late medieval exempla and penitential texts from which many of his tales descend, also participate in post...

..., Metamorphoses 13.866, “sic se tibi misceat,” or in De civitate Dei 14.19, “miscetur uxori.”59 The idiom comes closer to home in the Latin version of the Penitential of Halitgar, a vernacular adaptation of which constitutes one of the three surviving Old English penitential manuals.60 The Old English...