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Book SynopsisThe focus of this volume is on ministry to the sick and dying in the later Middle Ages, especially providing them with the sacraments. Medieval writers linked illness to sin and its forgiveness. The priest, as physician of souls, was expected to heal the soul, preparing it for the hereafter.
Trade ReviewThis is a learned and well-written volume by a highly experienced scholar whose research in both primary and secondary sources is exceptionally wide, deep, and up-to-date. The geographical breadth and textual depth of this survey, which includes not only major and less well-known figures and texts on canon law and theology but also sermons, manuals for preachers, legislation of church councils and synods, visitation records, rulings of individual prelates, saints' lives and more, gives this study a range that puts it in a class of its own, with a coverage not found in previous treatments of its subject."" - Marcia Colish, author of
Faith, Fiction, and Force in Medieval Baptism Debates
