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This compelling book, first published in 1995, changed historians' understanding of the history of public penance, a topic crucial to debates about the complex evolution of individualism in the West. Mary C. Mansfield demonstrates that various forms of public humiliation, imposed on nobles and peasants alike for shocking crimes as well as for minor brawls, survived into the thirteenth century and beyond.

The Humiliation of Sinners: Public Penance in Thirteenth-Century France

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    Publisher: Cornell University Press
    Publication Date: 17/03/2005
    ISBN13: 9780801489945, 978-0801489945
    ISBN10: 0801489946

    Number of Pages: 360

    Non Fiction , History

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    This compelling book, first published in 1995, changed historians' understanding of the history of public penance, a topic crucial to debates about the complex evolution of individualism in the West. Mary C. Mansfield demonstrates that various forms of public humiliation, imposed on nobles and peasants alike for shocking crimes as well as for minor brawls, survived into the thirteenth century and beyond.

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