Medici et Medicamenta: The Medicine of Penance in Late Antiquity
- Lanham University Press of America 2009
- 315p
PART ONE: A Survey of the Modern Historiography of Penance (ca. 1500-2000) Chapter One Penance as Construct in the Modern History of Religions Chapter Two From Dogmatic History to the History of Dogma (ca.1520-1920) Chapter Three Convergences and New Directions (ca. 1920-2000) Chapter Four Paradigms in the Contemporary Historiography of Penance PART TWO A Survey of the Literature of Penance (ca. 1650 B.C.-A.D. 650) Chapter Five Penance in Pre-Christian Antiquity Chapter Six The Origins of Ritual Penance in Christian Antiquity Chapter Seven The Transformation of Penance in Late Antiquity Chapter Eight The Monasticization of Penance (ca. 450-650)