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Very Good with no dust jacket. 0888441630. KB59...ix, 249 pp. Bibliographies, index. Octavo. Hardcovers with dark mauve spine, light brown boards with medieval image from Decretum. Covers and interior are clean and fresh, binding is tight. Nice copy. This volume rounds out an important trilogy of studies by Payer on the topic of sex in the ecclesiastical thought and writings of the middle ages. This third volume examines the treatment of sex in the "new" literature of penance and confession. Composed by canon lawyers and by theologians for the instruction of priests, it is one of the most popular genres of writing of the later middle ages, although it remains largely unknown and underutilized as a historical source.; Studies And Texts; Vol. 163; 8vo 8"-9" tall; 260 pages.