Punishment and Penance

Rezensionen / Stimmen

'Thomas Deutscher also deserves credit for having cast his net widely and in a comprehensive manner.... Punishment and Penance offers a broad and richly nuanced account of the full range of activities deemed inappropriate, often less spectacular than that which dominates recent micro histories but providing more of a sense of the quotidian... The University of Toronto Press is to be thanked as well for bringing out this well-executed, thoroughly satisfying study.' - James S. Grubb (Renaissance Quarterly vol 66:04:2013) 'This book is a pleasant discovery... It is extremely interesting to discover that minor realities had their own autonomy and a specific development of their own peculiarities adapted to real life.'

- Elena Brizio (Renaissance and Reformation vol 37:01:2014) 'Deutscher's work offers a very good window onto an understudied institution that speaks directly to Reformation questions... His discussion of the diocesan court and broader religious authorities in the area is excellent.'

- Jana Byars (Sixteenth Century Journal vol 46:03:2015) 'One of the most fascinating elements of this study is the rich narrative about rogue priests and the seeming inability of the bishop's tribunal to curb them.'

- Christopher Carlsmith (The Catholic Historical Review - vol 102:01:2016)