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On Tue, 28 May 1996 08:12:30 -0400 Sherry wrote:

> 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]>
> 
> 
> 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.

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.




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