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A Contrite Heart: Prosecution and Redemption in the Carolingian Empire

A Contrite Heart: Prosecution and Redemption in the Carolingian Empire

Firey, Abigail

Hardcover

Series: Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions, Book 145

Medieval & Renaissance HistoryGeneral Racism & Ethnic StudiesGeneral World History

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ISBN10: 9004178155
ISBN13: 9789004178151
Publisher: Brill
Published: Sep 21 2009
Pages: 312
Weight: 1.45
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.50 Depth: 9.60
Language: English
Between the middle of the eighth century and the late ninth century in western Europe, the course of legal history was shaped by interaction with religious ideas, especially with regard to the meaning of confession, suffering, and the balance of protections for an accused individual and the welfare of the community. This book traces those themes through a selection of Carolingian texts, such as archbishop Hincmar's legal analysis of a royal divorce, the decrees of church councils, the biography of a Saxon holy woman, anti-Judaic treatises, and Hrotswitha's dramatisation of the legend of Thaïs, in order to make audible the lively debates over the boundaries of clerical and lay authority, the nature and extent of permissible intervention in the spiritual condition of the empire's inhabitants, and distinctions between the private and public domains. This work thus reveals the profound relation between law and penitential ideologies promoted by the Carolingian imperial court.

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