 | @quot;Poor Sinning Folk@quot;: Confession and Conscience in Counter-Reformation Germany Subjects: Confession; Penance -- History -- Germany -- Bavaria; Penance -- History -- Austria; Counter -- Reformation -- GermanyBavaria; Counter -- Reformation -- Austria; Bavaria (Germany) -- Church history; Austria -- Church history; In "Poor, Sinning Folk , " W. David Myers investigates the sixteenth-century fate of the medieval Christian sacrament of penance, the process of confessing to a priest in secret one's sins against God and other humans. W. David Myers is Assistant Professor of History at Fordham University. |
