Contents: Introduction; Katharine Jackson Lualdi and Anne T. Thayer; Judge and doctor: images of the confessor in printed model sermon collections, 1450-1520, Anne T. Thayer; Communication, consolation and discipline: two early Lutheran preachers on confession, Mary Jane Haemig; Private confession and religious authority in Reformation Nürnberg, Ronald K. Rittgers; Richard Greenham’s ’spiritual physicke’: the comfort of afflicted consciences in Elizabethan pastoral care, Kenneth L. Parker; Notions of sin and penitence within the French reformed community, Raymond A. Mentzer; The rituals of reconciliation: admonition, confession and community in the Dutch reformed church, Charles H. Parker; The politics of the soul: confession in counter-reformation Milan, Wietse de Boer; A body of beliefs and believers: sacramental confession and parish worship in Reformation France, Katharine Jackson Lualdi; Johannes Uhl on penitence: sermons and prayers of the dean of Rottweil, 1579-1602, Jason K. Nye; Confession, gender, life-writing: some cases (mainly) from Spain, Jodi Bilinkoff; Confession and consolation: the Society of Jesus and its promotion of the general confession, Michael Maher, SJ; ’Schools of Mortification’: theatricality and the role of penitential practice in the Jesuits’ popular missions, Jennifer D. Selwyn; Jesuit confessors, African slaves and the practice of confession in seventeenth-century Cartagena, Ronald J. Morgan; Postscript, Thomas N. Tentler; Bibliography; Index.
Lualdi, Katharine Jackson; Thayer, Anne T.
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