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First comprehensive survey of a major genre of medieval English texts: its purpose, characteristics, and reception.

English literature --- History and criticism. --- 1100-1500 --- Middle English Language, Period of --- Ancrene Wisse. --- Church control. --- Manuals for Penitents. --- Medieval England. --- Parson's Tale. --- confession. --- knowledge dissemination. --- layfolk. --- medieval culture. --- medieval texts. --- morality. --- orthodoxy. --- religious literature. --- sin. --- Penitents in art. --- Penitentials --- Literature, Medieval --- History