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Medieval Handbooks of Penance: A Translation of the Principal Libri Poenitentiales and Selections from Related Documents

by Helena M. Gamer, John T. McNeill

Pages: 478

Contributors: Helena M. Gamer,John T. McNeill

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Place of Publication: New York

Publication Year: 1938

Subjects: Penitentials

Table of Contents

Title Page

Preface

Contents

Abbreviations

Introduction

Documents

Chapter I Early Irish Penitential Documents

Chapter II

Chapter III Penitentials of the Anglo-Saxon Church

Chapter IV Penitentials by Irish Authors Which Were Apparently Compiled on the Continent

Chapter V Anonymous and Pseudonymous Frankish and Visigothic Penitentials of the Eighth and Ninth Centuries

Chapter VI Penitentials Written or Authorized by Frankish Ecclesiastics

Chapter VII Selections from Later Penitential Documents

Chapter VIII Penitential Elements in Medieval Public Law

Chapter IX Synodical Decisions and Ecclesiastical Opinions Relating to the Penitentials

Appendix II Selections from the Customs of Tallaght (ca. 831-40)

Appendix III Irish Canons from a Worcester Collection (ca. 1000)

Appendix IV on Documents Omitted

Appendix V the Manuscripts of the Penitentials

Selected Bibliography

Index

Records of Civilization Sources and Studies

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