Medieval Handbooks of Penance: A Translation of the Principal "Libri Pœnitentiales" and Selections From Related Documents
| Authors | McNeill, John T. Gamer, Helena M. |
| Series | Records of Western Civilization [29.0] |
| Tags | Penitentials, Penance -- History of doctrines -- Middle Ages 600-1500 -- Sources, Penitentials -- History -- Sources |
| Publisher | Columbia University Press |
| Published | 14 apr 1990 |
| Date | 26 apr 2019 |
| Languages | eng |
| Identifiers | google: G0irAgAAQBAJ, lcn: BX2262. M43 1990, oclc: 298105132, url: https://archive.org/details/MedievalHandbooksOfPenance, uri: https://www.fulcrum.org/epubs/6682x4341, Amazon.com, isbn: 9780231096294 |
| Formats | PDF, PDF_OCR |
Description
Elliott 1993 p. 66 (PDF p. 82) mentions the "Penitential [Manual] of Finian" recommending perpetual continence in cases of sterility:
Finian also recommends perpetual continence in the event of sterility (c. 41, p. 95 [PDF p. 114]
Usury also discussed! (cf. Langholm's Merchant in the Confessional)
Guidelines for medieval clerics on how to assign appropriate penances for particular sins, in readable translations with detailed introductions.
| 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.
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