The church law of penance - the evidence of the collections; education and community - councils, synodal sermons and capitularies; penance and the regular life; the penitential liturgy - unity or diversity; the penitential liturgy - regional variations; penance and the wider world; afterword. Appendices: the distribution of the Romano-German pontifical; penitential rites outside the Romano-German pontifical tradition.
SARAH HAMILTON is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, History Department, University of Exeter.
Richly documented study. CATHOLIC HISTORICAL REVIEW Stimulating
study changing our perceptions of medieval penance.
*HISTORY*
A thoroughly researched book, well documentd and with many
thought-provoking ideas, and it deserves a warm welcome.
*SPECULUM*
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