ABSTRACT
As Leonard Boyle and other scholars have shown, many other educated clergy in England and across Europe were also writing works on confession, preaching and pastoral care. This chapter presents one of these works: an unusual list of questions relating to the seven vices and their manifestations in thirteenth-century England. It deals with the words Animetur primo confitens. By contrast Animetur primo tells about how the ideas in longer pastoral works might be communicated to a wider audience. One of the key moments in the process of pastoral care which the reformers focused on was confession. Quite a few of the short confession treatises have been edited, and they have also been studied for what they can tell about a variety of other topics, including religious life, the ways in which confessions were conducted, and sexuality. Nevertheless, many remain unpublished and have attracted comparatively little attention.
