LEADER 03088nam 22004455 450 001 9910813939703321 005 20230817181920.0 010 $a1-5017-4470-4 024 7 $a10.7591/9781501744709 035 $a(CKB)4100000009147492 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5965135 035 $a(DE-B1597)533799 035 $a(OCoLC)1125114868 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781501744709 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000009147492 100 $a20191126d2019 fg 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 11$a"Poor Sinning Folk" $eConfession and Conscience in Counter-Reformation Germany /$fDavid Myers 210 1$aIthaca, NY :$cCornell University Press,$d[2019] 210 4$dİ1996 215 $a1 online resource (xii, 230 pages) $cillustrations 311 0 $a0-8014-3081-X 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIllustrations --$tAcknowledgments /$rMyers, W. David --$tIntroduction --$tI. Late-Medieval and Reformation Confession --$tII. The Catholic Reformation and Sacramental Confession --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aIn "Poor, Sinning Folk," W. David Myers investigates the sixteenth-century fate of the medieval Christian sacrament of penance, the process of confessing to a priest in secret one's sins against God and other humans. In Pre-Reformation Germany, numerous layers of public ritual, expectation, and display surrounded the central secret act of confessing and conditioned its meaning. Less frequent and less private than the ritual familiar to modern Catholics, medieval penance was for most German-speaking Christians a seasonal event with social as well as spiritual ramifications for participants. Protestantism swept confession away from many German lands. Even where Catholicism survived and flourished, as in the lands comprising modern Bavaria, the sacrament of penance changed profoundly. The modern confessional booth was introduced, making the sacrament more prominent, more secure from scandal, and ultimately more private. This reform coincided with the efforts of secular rulers to fashion a more disciplined, obedient population. New religious orders, most notably the Society of Jesus in Bavaria, saw the frequent confession of lay people as a means to piety and spiritual discipline amidst the temptations of worldly affairs. By the middle of the seventeenth century, political and religious forces combined to forge the sacrament of penance into an effective instrument of spiritual discipline which would fashion the modern Catholic conscience and endure essentially unchanged into the late twentieth century. 606 $aConfession 607 $aBavaria (Germany)$xChurch history 607 $aAustria$xChurch history 615 0$aConfession. 676 $a265/.6/094309031 700 $aMyers$b David$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$0801206 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910813939703321 996 $a"Poor Sinning Folk"$94096585 997 $aUNINA