LITERATURE QUESTIONS
MEDIEVAL WOMEN WRITERS
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cancelled out punishment due to sin
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depended entirely on literacy
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were considered “unimportant” by mystics
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were only performed by men
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Detailed explanation-1: -indulgence, a distinctive feature of the penitential system of both the Western medieval and the Roman Catholic Church that granted full or partial remission of the punishment of sin.
Detailed explanation-2: -What is an indulgence? An indulgence is a remission before God of the temporal punishment due to sins whose guilt has already been forgiven.
Detailed explanation-3: -“Temporal punishment” means that, even though all your sins are forgiven in Confession and the eternal punishment has been taken away, temporal consequences of the sin still remain. It is these temporal consequences of sin that send us to Purgatory before we can enter Heaven.
Detailed explanation-4: -One particularly well-known Catholic method of exploitation in the Middle Ages was the practice of selling indulgences, a monetary payment of penalty which, supposedly, absolved one of past sins and/or released one from purgatory after death.