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"Poor, sinning folk" : confession and conscience in Counter-Reformation Germany by W. David Myers, Ned Dykstra Hayes is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
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In "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-speak
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- Author
- W. David Myers, Ned Dykstra Hayes
- Publisher
- Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press
- Published
- 1996
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781501744709
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Religion, Philosophy, History
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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