dear all
just as a further footnote to Jim's excellent comments on the york
conference, my point about "social control" is more that Tentler's
thesis is perhaps not the most helpful way of approaching questions of
confession and power; but i take Jim's point that there is still a lot
of empirical digging to be done on the actual practice of confession,
and that the conference was indeed a mine of information.
cheers
john arnold
centre for medieval studies, york, england
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