'Pierre J. Payer' in OBA Collectie

Payer argues, despite modern orthodoxy, that the penitentials reflect reaction to actual practice and are not simply a record of the wild imaginings of monkish minds or the abstract categorizing of legal minds. He traces the history of the penitentials...

Some of the roots of the characteristic negative attitude to homosexuality can be found in Peter Damian?s appeal to Pope Leo IX. Though written 900 years ago by an Italian monk in a remote corner of Italy, The Book of Gomorrah is relevant to contemporar...