TY - BOOK ID - 78645253 TI - Anticipating sin in medieval society : childhood, sexuality, and violence in the early penitentials PY - 2017 SN - 9048551323 9048534089 9789048534081 9789462983717 9462983712 PB - Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Juvenile delinquency KW - Crime KW - Sins. KW - Sin KW - Vices KW - City crime KW - Crime and criminals KW - Crimes KW - Delinquency KW - Felonies KW - Misdemeanors KW - Urban crime KW - Social problems KW - Criminal justice, Administration of KW - Criminal law KW - Criminals KW - Criminology KW - Transgression (Ethics) KW - Delinquency, Juvenile KW - Juvenile crime KW - Conduct disorders in children KW - Juvenile corrections KW - Reformatories KW - History KW - Social aspects KW - Penitentials KW - Penitential books KW - Confession KW - Penance KW - medieval, penitentials, sexuality, violence, childhood. KW - To 1500 UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78645253 AB - Composed between the sixth and ninth centuries, penitentials were little books of penance that address a wide range of human fallibility. But they are far more than mere registers of sin and penance: rather, by revealing the multiple contexts in which their authors anticipated various sins, they reveal much about the ways those authors and, presumably, their audiences understood a variety of social phenomena. Offering new, more accurate translations of the penitentials than what has previously been available, this book delves into the potentialities addressed in these manuals for clues about less tangible aspects of early medieval history, including the innocence and vulnerability of young children and the relationship between speech and culpability; the links between puberty, autonomy, and moral accountability; early medieval efforts to regulate sexual relationships; and much more. ER -