Sin and Society in Fourteenth-Century England

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"Michael Haren analyses a remarkable treatise both as a vehicle of social doctrine and as a mirror of the milieu to which it is directed. While presenting it against its general intellectual background, continental and English, he also argues for its setting within a vigorous and largely neglected episcopal regime, that of Bishop Grandisson of Exeter. His wide-ranging exposition will interest students of moralizing literature - including Chaucer and Piers Plowman - as well as historians."--Jacket.

subjects: Penitentials,  Confession,  Confession (Canon law),  Memoriale Presbiterorum,  Catholic Church,  History