Lecture - The Penitentials: Remedies for sin and the regulation of sexuality (I): Penance in early Christian traditions, East and West (MDST2613 Sex and Sin in the Middle Ages, 2013)
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This lecture explored the early Christian inheritance of the concept of teshuvah/metanoia (penance/conversion) and the role of penance in the formation of early Christian communities and religious practices. It traced the evolution of penitential ideology in Western Christianity, with particular reference to the vocabulary of sexuality, transgression, and atonement in early medieval penitential literature, in early Insular religious governmentality, and linked to the payback exchange systems of tariff commutations (De arreis).
This lecture explored the tensions in early Insular penitential literature regarding sexuality as well as other "pagan" practices, including love magic, sex magic, and assault sorcery. It examined the literary as well as the architectural and folkloric evidence of the survival of pre-Christian ideas into the Christian era, and the regulation and/or suppression of sex practices (and related practices) among the early medieval clergy and laity.
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MA Thesis completed at Fordham University in 2015
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