Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


  • Record Number: 9645
  • Author(s)/Creator(s): Murray , Jacqueline.
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  • Title: Absent Penitent: The Cure of Women's Souls and Confessors' Manuals in Thirteenth- Century England
  • Source: Women, the Book and the Godly: Selected Proceedings of the St. Hilda's Conference, 1993. Volume 1 [Volume 2: Women, the Book and the Worldly].  Edited by Lesley Smith and Jane H. M. Taylor.  D.S. Brewer, 1995.  Pages 13 - 25.
  • Description:
  • Article Type: Essay
  • Subject (See Also): Confessors Confessors' Handbooks Penance Religious Life Sexuality Sins
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  • Geographic Area: British Isles
  • Century: 13
  • Primary Evidence: Handbook; Confessors' Manuals by Thomas of Chobham, Summa Confessorum;Richard Wetheringsett, Summa "Qui bene presunt";Walter de Cantilupe, Summula "Omnis etas";Alexander Stavensby, "De septem criminalibus" and "De confessionibus";Magister Serlo, Summa de penitentia
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  • Author's Affiliation: University of Windsor, Ontario
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  • Year of Publication: 1995.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN/ISBN: 0859914208