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Record Nr.

UNINA9910792373003321

Autore

Firey Abigail

Titolo

A contrite heart [[electronic resource] ] : prosecution and redemption in the Carolingian empire / / by Abigail Firey

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2009

ISBN

1-282-60612-3

9786612606120

90-474-4051-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (312 p.)

Collana

Studies in medieval and Reformation traditions, , 1573-4188 ; ; v. 145

Disciplina

340.5/5

Soggetti

Law, Medieval

Penance - History of doctrines

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Material / A. Firey -- Introduction / A. Firey -- Chapter One. The Protection Of Privacy: Secrets And Silence / A. Firey -- Chapter Two. The Public Welfare: Pollution And Purgation / A. Firey -- Chapter Three. Authority And Piety / A. Firey -- Chapter Four. Empire And Education / A. Firey -- Chapter Five. Contestation, Co-Operation, Coercion, And Resistance / A. Firey -- Appendix A. Penitential Canons Pertaining To Dietary Pollution / A. Firey -- Bibliography / A. Firey -- Index Locorum / A. Firey -- Index Personarum / A. Firey -- Index Rerum / A. Firey -- Index Scripturarum / A. Firey.

Sommario/riassunto

Between the middle of the eighth century and the late ninth century in western Europe, the course of legal history was shaped by interaction with religious ideas, especially with regard to the meaning of confession, suffering, and the balance of protections for an accused individual and the welfare of the community. This book traces those themes through a selection of Carolingian texts, such as archbishop Hincmar's legal analysis of a royal divorce, the decrees of church councils, the biography of a Saxon holy woman, anti-Judaic treatises, and Hrotswitha's dramatisation of the legend of Thaïs, in order to make audible the lively debates over the boundaries of clerical and lay authority, the nature and extent of permissible intervention in the



spiritual condition of the empire's inhabitants, and distinctions between the private and public domains. This work thus reveals the profound relation between law and penitential ideologies promoted by the Carolingian imperial court.