Manuals for Penitents in Medieval English: From “Ancrene Wisse” to the “Parson’s Tale.”
- Author / Editor
- Murchison, Krista A.
Manuals for Penitents in Medieval English: From “Ancrene Wisse” to the “Parson’s Tale.”
- Published
- Cambridge: Brewer, 2021.
- Physical Description
- xiv, 175 pp.
- Description
- Describes and assesses the wide array of guides to penitential self-examination in late medieval Latin, Anglo-Norman, and Middle English, viewing them in the contexts of the 1215 Lateran Council, the rise in popular religion, and developing notions of subjectivity and identity. Includes a chapter on ParsT, “‘To enden in som vertuous sentence': Concluding with Chaucer’s Parson," which clarifies the orthodoxy of its general form and content, despite its lack of discussion of the Ten Commandments and the "Pater noster."
- Alternative Title
- “To enden in som vertuous sentence": Concluding with Chaucer's Parson.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Parson and His Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations