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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Jacob's Well"”.
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Learning to Love
… of penance.</p> <p>Chapter one considers <italic>Jacob's Well </italic>, a fifteenth-century penitential manual written by an anonymous author that uses architectural allegory to describes the penitential process. I argue that the author, a self-proclaimed "man of craft," apprentices the reader …
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Population Genetics and Conservation of Texas Hill Country Eurycea
… than one for all pairs of populations except Jacob's Well and Devil's Backbone. There was a significant correlation between non-equilibrium migration rate and geographic distance. Partial mantel tests revealed that what little gene flow occurs among populations does not appear to be …
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Models of Confession: Penitential Writing in Late Medieval England
… of penance. </p><p>Chapter one examines <italic>Jacob's Well<italic>, a fifteenth-century vernacular penitential treatise. I argue that the narrative exempla often work against the instruction offered within each chapter, compelling the reader to consider theological problems not addressed within …
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Love and Drede: Religious Fear in Middle English
Several earlier generations of historians described the later Middle Ages as an ‘age of fear’. This account was especially applied to accounts of the presumed mentality of the later medieval layperson, seen as at the mercy of the currents of plague, violence and dramatic social, economic and …