Title: Sin and Society in Fourteenth-Century England
Description: "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