| > From: Sherry <[log in to unmask]>
| > Date: Tue, 28 May 1996 08:12:30 -0400
| > Subject: New member, John Sherry
| > To: All list members <[log in to unmask]>
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| > I'm a mental health worker doing research on medieval confession - the
| > tie-in with mental health is that I'm interested in confession as an
| > antecedent of modern psychotherapy. I'm interested in the development of
| > confessional practice in the periods preceding and following Lateran IV,
| > particularly in the light of that Council's emphasis on "private"
| > confession. I'm pursuing the research from the standpoint of philosophical
| > and literary history, so I also have a wider interest in issues connected
| > with medieval culture - particularly Thomistic psychology and Middle
| > English literature.
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| You'd have done well to come to the conference here at York on the very subject. Alastair Minnis,
| on this network, is one of the editors of the proceedings.
If you are interested in the psychological aspect of confession, then
you should read the works on confession by Robert Grosseteste, who
integreted traditional augustinian psychology with some of the trendy
arabic psychology emerging in the thirteenth century.
The two best texts to examine are:
Deus est, ed. S Wenzel in Franciscan Studies 30 (1970) 218-293;
Perambulavit Iudas (Speculum confessionis) ed. J Goering and FAC
Mantello in Revue Benedictine 96 (1986) 125-168
Both have excellent introductory discussions. The second one is most
intriguing for its use of a city motif to describe sensory
experience, as well as the highly personal account of sin and
confession.
Cheers
Jim
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