Molineaux, Natalie Brigit

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)

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