"Poor Sinning Folk": Confession and Conscience in Counter-Reformation Germany The Catholic Historical Review | July 1, 1997| | Copyright Catholic University of America Press Jul 1997. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

"Poor Sinning Folk": Confession and Conscience in Counter-Reformation Germany. By W David Myers. (Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press. 1996. Pp. xiii, 230. $35.00.)

David Myers' new book fills an important gap in our understanding of the processes of Reformation and Counter-Reformation and the role that penance played in those transformations. Myers focuses primarily, although not exclusively, on the Duchy of Bavaria, that firm bastion of Catholic piety long cited as the epitome of the central European, counter-reforming state. Before Myers' book, English-speaking historians often ...

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