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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. 478 pgs.

Contributors:

   Helena M. Gamer, John T. McNeill

Publisher:

   Columbia University Press

Place of Publication:

  New York  

Publication Year:

  1938

Subjects:

Penitentials

	Contents
	Abbreviations xiii
	PENANCE IN THE ANCIENT CHURCH	3
	Public and exacting character of the ancient church penance	4
	Systematization of penance	7
	Was secret confession practiced?	9
	Penance not repeatable	14
	The sacramental aspect of penance	15
	The deadly sins	18
	The decline of ancient penance	20
	THE PENITENTIALS 23
	Rise and spread of the penitentials	23
	Distinctive character of the new penance	28
	Curious and extreme penalties	30
	Legal customs	35
	Folk-paganism and its repression	38
	Medicine for sin	44
	The influence of the penitentials	46
	THE CONDITION OF THE TEXTS	51
	The editions	51
	The manuscripts	55
	The Latinity	68
I.	EARLY IRISH PENITENTIAL DOCUMENTS	75
1.	The canons attributed to St. Patrick	75
	Canons of a synod of Patrick, Auxilius, and Iserninus	76
	Canons of the alleged second synod of St. Patrick	80
2.	The Penitential of Finnian	86
3.	The Penitential of Cummean	98
4.	The Irish Canons (Canones Hibernenses)	117
5.	Penitential writings of Adamnan	130
	The Canons of Adamnan	130
	Selections from the Law of Adamnan	135
6.	Selections from an Irish Collection of Canons (Collectio canonum Hibernensis)	139
7.	An Old Irish Table of Commutations	142
8.	Selections from the Bigotian Penitential	148
9.	Selections from an Old Irish Penitential of the late eighth century	155
II.	EARLY WELSH PENITENTIAL DOCUMENTS	169
1.	Canons of sixty-century Welsh synods	169
	The Synod of North Britain	170
	The Synod of the Grove of Victory	171
2.	Certain Excerpts from a Book of David	172
3.	The Preface of Gildas on penance	174
III.	PENITENTIALS OF THE ANGLO-SAXON CHURCH	179
1.	The Penitential of Theodore	179
2.	Selections from the penitential canons attributed to Theodore	215
3.	Selections from the penitential tentatively ascribed by Albers to Bede	217
4.	Selections from another penitential ascribed to Bede	233
5.	Selections from the Penitential of Egbert	237
6.	Selections from the Dialogue of Egbert	239
7.	Selections from the So-called Confessional of Egbert	243
IV.	PENITENTIALS BY IRISH AUTHORS WHICH WERE APPARENTLY COMPILED ON THE CONTINENT	249
1.	The Penitential of Columban	249
2.	Selections from the Regula Coenobialis of Columban	257
3.	Selections from the Penitential formerly thought to be Cummean's	266
V.	ANONYMOUS AND PSEUDONYMOUS FRANKISH AND VISIGOTHIC PENITENTIALS OF THE EIGHTH AND NINTH CENTURIES	271
1.	The Judgment of Clement	271
2.	The Burgundian Penitential	273
3.	Selections from the Bobbio Penitential	278
4.	Selections from the Paris Penitential	279
5.	Selections from the Fleury Penitential	280
6.	Selections from the Tripartite St. Gall Penitential	282
7.	Selections from the Penitential of Silos	285
8.	Selections from the Penitential of Vigila of Alvelda	291
9.	Selections from the St. Hubert Penitential	292
VI.	PENITENTIALS WRITTEN OR AUTHORIZED BY FRANKISH ECCLESIASTICS	295
1.	The So-called Roman Penitential published by Halitgar (Poenitentiale Pseudo-Romanum)	295
2.	Penitential canons from Regino's Ecclesiastical Discipline	314
3.	Selections from the Corrector and Physician of Burchard of Worms	321
VII.	SELECTIONS FROM LATER PENITENTIAL DOCU- MENTS	346
1.	From the Penitential of Bartholomew Iscanus, bishop of Exeter	346
2.	From Alain de Lille's Penitential Book	350
3.	From the Laurentian Penitential	352
4.	From the Penitential of Robert of Flamesbury	353
5.	From Icelandic penitentials of the twelfth and fourteenth centuries	354
	From the Penitential of Thorlac Thorhallson	354
	From the Precepts of the Bishops of Horlar	359
6.	From the Penitential of Ciudad	360
7.	From the Milan Penitential and its abridgment	363
	From the Milan Penitential of Cardinal Borromeo	363
	From the Abridgment of the Milan Penitential	365
VIII.	PENITENTIAL ELEMENTS IN MEDIEVAL PUBLIC LAW	369
1.	Selections from early Irish law	369
2.	Selections from early Welsh law	372
	The Welsh Canons (Canones Wallici)	372
	From the Laws of Howel the Good	382
3.	Selections from early English law	383
4.	Selections from Frankish and Visigothic law	387
5.	Note on penitential provisions in Norse law	392
IX.	SYNODICAL DECISIONS AND ECCLESIASTICAL OPINIONS RELATING TO THE PENITENTIALS	394
1.	From the canons of the Council of Cloveshoe	394
2.	From the capitularies of Theodulf of Orléans	395
3.	From the letters of Alcuin of York	397
4.	From the so-called Constitutions of Boniface	398
5.	From Frankish councils of the early ninth century	399
6.	From the penitential writings of Raban Maur	403
7.	From a ninth-century tract on composition	404
8.	From Pope Nicholas I's answers to the Bulgarians	407
9.	From Hinkmar of Reims	407
10.	From the spurious "Canons of King Edgar"	409
11.	From the homilies of Aelfric	410
12.	From Peter Damian's Liber Gomorrhianus	411
13.	From the synodical Constitutions of Odo, bishop of Paris	412
14.	From the Council of Westminster, held under Hubert Walter, archbishop of Canterbury	413
15.	From the canons of the Fourth Lateran Council	413
16.	Note on the decrees of the Council of Trent	414
17.	Luther and Calvin on confession and penance	414
18.	From the Constitutions and Canons Ecclesiastical of the Church of England	415
	APPENDICES
I.	AN EIGHTH-CENTURY LIST OF SUPERSTITIONS	419
II.	SELECTIONS FROM THE CUSTOMS OF TALLAGHT	422
III.	IRISH CANONS FROM A WORCESTER COLLECTION	425
IV.	ON DOCUMENTS OMITTED	427
V.	THE MANUSCRIPTS OF THE PENITENTIALS	432
	BIBLIOGRAPHY,	451
	INDEX,	455
	FACSIMILE OF MS PARIS, BIBL. NAT. LAT. 3182, p. 281 (the end of the Preface of Gildas and The beginning of the Synod of North Britain)	62
	FACSIMILE OF MS ROME, VAT. PAL. LAT. 554, f. 1 (the epilogue of the Penitential of Theodore)	68

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