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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McNeill, John T., author.

Gamer, Helena M., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Penitentials.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 476 pages)

Other Title:

Medieval handbooks of penance

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, 2018.

Summary:

"Guidelines for medieval clerics on how to assign appropriate penances for particular sins, in readable translations with detailed introductions. Crucial evidence for the nature of the early medieval church ... The readable translations and detailed introductions provided here for each document make the material easily accessible. (Carolyn Bynum, Columbia University)".

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.

Notes:

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