Ebook: The Humiliation of Sinners: Public Penance in Thirteenth-Century France
Author: Mary Mansfield
- Year: 1995
- Publisher: Cornell University Press
- Language: English
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This compelling book, first published in 1995, changed historians' understanding of the history of public penance, a topic crucial to debates about the complex evolution of individualism in the West. Mary C. Mansfield demonstrates that various forms of public humiliation, imposed on nobles and peasants alike for shocking crimes as well as for minor brawls, survived into the thirteenth century and beyond.
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