{"product_id":"sin-and-society-in-fourteenth-century-england","title":"Sin and Society in Fourteenth-Century England","description":"\u003cp\u003ePenetrating behind the seal of medieval confession is among the most formidable historiographical challenges. One route is through confessors' manuals. This is the first full-scale scholarly study of a fourteenth-century confessor's English example. It contributes significantly to the European-wide research on pre-Reformation confessional practice and clerical training. On another level, the Memoriale Presbiterorum's peculiarly intense concern with social\n\u003cbr\u003emorality affords pungent commentary on contemporary English society.   Michael Haren analyses a remarkable treatise both as a vehicle of social doctrine and as a mirror of the milieu to\n\u003cbr\u003ewhich it is directed. While presenting it against its general intellectual background, continental and English, he also argues for its setting within a vigorous and largely neglected episcopal regime, that of Bishop Grandisson of Exeter.  His wide-ranging exposition will interest students of moralizing literature - including Chaucer and Piers Plowman - as well as historians.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44157007429870,"sku":"9780198208518","price":406.82,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0630\/9612\/7726\/files\/9780198208518.jpg?v=1706250686","url":"https:\/\/bookland.com.au\/products\/sin-and-society-in-fourteenth-century-england","provider":"Book Land AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}