IMC 2018: Sessions
Session 609: New Directions in Medieval Confession, II: Vernacular Confession
Tuesday 3 July 2018, 11.15-12.45
| Sponsor: | Network for the Study of Late Antique & Early Medieval Monasticism |
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| Organisers: | Andrea Mancini, Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds Krista A. Murchison, Faculteit der Geesteswetenschappen, Universiteit Leiden |
| Moderator/Chair: | Andrea Mancini, Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds |
| Paper 609-a | The Depiction of Private Sins in the Anglo-Norman Version of Robert Grosseteste's Perambulauit Iudas, c. 1235 (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Language and Literature - French or Occitan |
| Paper 609-b | Conscience and Confession: Penitential Practice in the Kingship of Louis IX (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Language and Literature - French or Occitan |
| Paper 609-c | Judgement, Judge, and Jury: A Posthumous Confession and Penance in St Erkenwald (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Language and Literature - Middle English |
| Abstract | The essays collected in Abigail Firey's New History of Penance mark a departure in the historiography of penance away from the narration of 'grand histories' favoured by early 20th century scholars and toward greater recognition of, and interest in, the fundamental differences in confessional practices between regions, time periods, and social contexts. This session, which follows from the successful 2017 sessions on medieval confession, is aimed at advancing this more focused approach to the history of confession by exploring how confessional practices are depicted in a selection of English and French texts written in the turbulent decades following the Fourth Lateran Council. |