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  • Record Number: 13010
  • Author(s)/Creator(s): Biller , Peter.
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  • Title: Confessors' Manuals and the Avoiding of Offspring [The author argues that pastoral concern over efforts to prevent conception indicates an increase in the practice and may be correlated to overpopulation].
  • Source: Handling Sin: Confession in the Middle Ages.  Edited by Peter Biller and A.J. MinnisYork Studies in Medieval Theology.  York Medieval Press, 1998.  Pages 165 - 187.
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  • Article Type: Essay
  • Subject (See Also): Confessors' Handbooks Contraception Demography In Primis Debet Sacerdos, Confessors' Handbook John of Freiburg, Dominican Friar- Confessionale Medicine Overpopulation Pastoral Literature
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  • Geographic Area: General
  • Century: 13- 14
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  • Year of Publication: 1998.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN/ISBN: 0952973413