| Title |
Medici et medicamenta : the medicine of penance in late antiquity / Natalie Brigit Molineaux. - |
| Author |
Molineaux, Natalie Brigit |
| Call number |
BV840 .M65 2009 |
| Year |
c2009 |
| Size |
xviii, 315 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Publisher |
University Press of America |
| ISBN |
0761844295 9780761844297 |
| Notes |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [283]-300) and index.
|
| Subject Term |
Penance | History | Confession | History |
| Contents |
This book is a comprehensive historiographical survey on Christian penance and confession from the early sixteenth century to the end of the twentieth century. The author chsrts the change from medieval practices of penance to the modern rites of penance.
The book's title refers to the latin phrase medici et medicamenta, or "spiritual doctors and medicines," to indicate a unifying theme of this study. |
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