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The Sincere Body: The Performance of Weeping and Emotion in Late Medieval Italian Sermons - Medievalists.net

In 1493 the well-known and controversial Franciscan preacher Bernardino of Feltre gave a series of Lenten sermons to the people of Pavia. On March 11 he dedicated an entire sermon to the necessity of contrition—or perfect sorrow over sin—in the rite of confession.

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