Medieval handbooks of penance : a translation of the principal "libri poenitentiales" and selections from related documents / by John T. McNeill and Helena M. Gamer.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	McNeill, John T. (John Thomas), 1885-1975, Gamer, Helena M. (Helena Margaret), 1900-1966
Format:	eBook
Language:	English Latin
Published:	New York : Columbia University Press, ©1990.
Series:	Records of Western civilization.
Subjects:	600-1500 Penitentials > History > Sources. Penance > History of doctrines > Middle Ages, 600-1500 > Sources. Penitentials. History. Sources.
Online Access:	Click for online access

Table of Contents:

Penance in the ancient church
The penitentials
The condition of the texts
Early Irish penitential documents
Early Welsh penitential documents
Penitentials of the Anglo-Saxon church
Penitentials by Irish authors which were apparently compiled on the continent
Anonymous and pseudonymous Frankish and Visigothic penitentials of the eighth and ninth centuries
Penitentials written or authorized by Frankish ecclesiastics
Selections from later penitential documents
Penitential elements in medieval public law
Synodical decisions and ecclesiastical opinions relating to the penitentials
An eighth-century list of superstitions
Selections from the customs of Tallaght
Irish canons from a Worcester collection
On documents omitted
The manuscripts of the penitentials.

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