Sexuality in the Confessional
A Sacrament Profaned
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Oxford University Press Inc
Published:28th Mar '96
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
Haliczer's timely work uses a wealth of actual cases to document the eroticizing of the confessional between 1530 and 1819. Trial evidence left by the Spanish Inquisition vividly describes the sexual misconduct of priests and the reactions of the Church. What Haliczer shows is that the Counter-Reformation Church, eager to re-assert its morality and control, actually helped foster sexual solicitation in the confessional.
A major contribution to the history of sexuality in early modern Europe and to the growing literature on the vast database for social and cultural history offered by the records of the Spanish Inquisition. It is the most important contribution to the study of sexual solicitation in the confessional since H.C. Lea's Auricular Confession and Indulgences, published exactly 100 years ago. * Choice *
ISBN: 9780195096569
Dimensions: 159mm x 238mm x 23mm
Weight: 635g
280 pages