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Medieval handbooks of penance: a translation of the principal "libri poenitentiales" and selections from related documents

John T. McNeill and Helena M. Gamer c1990 © Columbia University Press
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Series
  • Records of Civilization
ISBN(s)
  • 9780231096294 (paper)
  • 9780231008891 (hardcover)
Subject
  • European: 400-1400
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  • Table of Contents

  • Reviews

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  • Frontmatter
  • Abbreviations (page xv)
  • INTRODUCTION
    • PENANCE IN THE ANCIENT CHURCH (page 3)
    • THE PENITENTIALS (page 23)
    • THE CONDITION OF THE TEXTS (page 51)
  • DOCUMENTS
    • I. EARLY IRISH PENITENTIAL DOCUMENTS (page 75)
    • II. EARLY WELSH PENITENTIAL DOCUMENTS (page 169)
    • III. PENITENTIALS OF THE ANGLO‐SAXON CHURCH (page 179)
    • IV. PENITENTIALS BY IRISH AUTHORS WHICH WERE. APPARENTLY COMPILED ON THE CONTINENT (page 249)
    • V. ANONYMOUS AND PSEUDONYMOUS FRANKISH AND VISIGOTHIC PENITENTIALS OF THE EIGHTH AND NINTH CENTURIES (page 271)
    • VI. PENITENTIALS WRITTEN OR AUTHORIZED BY FRANKISH ECCLESIASTICS (page 295)
    • VII. SELECTIONS FROM LATER PENITENTIAL DOCUMENTS (page 346)
    • VIII. PENITENTIAL ELEMENTS IN MEDIEVAL PUBLIC LAW (page 369)
    • IX. SYNODICAL DECISIONS AND ECCLESIASTICAL OPINIONS RELATING TO THE PENITENTIALS (page 394)
  • APPENDICES
    • I. AN EIGHTH-CENTURY LIST OF SUPERSTITIONS (page 419)
    • II. SELECTIONS FROM THE CUSTOMS OF TALLAGHT (page 422)
    • III. IRISH CANONS FROM A WORCESTER COLLECTION (page 425)
    • IV. ON DOCUMENTS OMITTED (page 427)
    • V. THE MANUSCRIPTS OF THE PENITENTIALS (page 432)
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY (page 451)
  • INDEX (page 455)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
UCLR 6.1 (Dec. 1938): 148 http://www.jstor.org/stable/1596943
CH 8.2 (Jun. 1939): 170-172 http://www.jstor.org/stable/3160660
ENHR 55.218 (Apr. 1940): 324-325 http://www.jstor.org/stable/553886
JR 20.2 (Apr. 1940): 210-211 http://www.jstor.org/stable/1198847
SP 14.2 (Apr. 1939): 254-256 http://www.jstor.org/stable/2849500
AHR 44.4 (Jul. 1939): 873-874 http://www.jstor.org/stable/1844423
CH 62.4 (Dec. 1993): 592 http://www.jstor.org/stable/3168116
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