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Title Medieval handbooks of penance : a translation of the principal "libri poenitentiales" and selections from related documents / by John T. McNeill and Helena M. Gamer
Published New York : Columbia University Press, ©1990

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 476 pages, 2 unnumbered leaves of plates)
Series Records of western civilization
Records of Western civilization.
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 Reprint, with new introd. Previously published: New York : Octagon Books, 1965. Previously published in series: Records of civilization, sources and studies ; no. 29
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 453-454) and index
Notes Print version record
In ACLS Humanities E-Book.
Subject Penitentials -- History -- Sources
Penance -- History of doctrines -- Middle Ages, 600-1500 -- Sources
Penitentials.
Genre/Form History.
Sources.
Form Electronic book
Author McNeill, John T. (John Thomas), 1885-1975.
Gamer, Helena M. (Helena Margaret), 1900-1966.
LC no. 90037583
ISBN 0231008899
9780231008891
0231096291
9780231096294